How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor

Presents a collection of ancient spells and incantations that have been adapted for modern times.

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

In the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s, a series of stock characters emerged to define and bolster white masculinity. Alongside such caricatures as "the

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re