This week on The Sound Kitchen, you'll hear an interview with Lisa Waller Rogers about her new book When People Were Things: ...

Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

Book publishing and magazines expanded at no less prodigious rates: The 1850s saw the publication of Atlantic founding ...

As America pushed westward, old divisions over slavery deepened — setting the stage for Civil War. America was halfway ...

Stephen Collins Foster was born on the Fourth of July 1826 — the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — in ...