Historians question whether Spielberg has made the 16th president into an unrealistic hero

The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.

U.S. capitalism solved its instability problem by making cyclical downturns afflict a minority of the working class

The network's recent miniseries "The Abolitionists" shamefully ignored the contributions of African-Americans

Forget Sally Hemings -- a historian discovers the ugliest side of a founding father in his ledgers

Speakers at conservative confab compare abortion to slavery, decry the left's "anti-child utopia"

Steve Bannon often compares his boss to a legendary populist — who was also a ruthless racist and empire builder

My New Jersey town is allowing an 18th-century farmstead to collapse, partly because its history isn't pretty

10 deep, crazy thoughts from the minister -- and Virginia Lt. Gov. nominee -- who has lots to say on gays and KKK

A white man's odyssey into his family's secret history is a searing look at the most shameful event in America's past.

Readers respond to Kurt Kleiner's review of "Drawing the Line: Science and the Case for Animal Rights."

Hardly a thing of the past, slavery thrives in our world. Investigative reporter Benjamin Skinner tells Salon the shocking truth about human trafficking.

Sarah Palin, Ben Carson and others who compare Obamacare to slavery don't know much about either

Shift from conscience-driven party of Lincoln to anger-driven party of Trump/Cruz has been 50 years in the making

A leading historian challenges the new orthodoxy about how slavery ended in America