The Pittsburgh location of the Karpeles Manuscript Library can be found in the former Holy Innocents Church in Sheraden.

Abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) rose to fame in 1851 with the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which highlighted the evils of slavery, angered the slaveholding South, and inspired ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Jefferson, who has been called “the apostle of liberty,” delivered some of the most impassioned criticisms of slavery in the ...

How do I begin this column which is not flourishing in my creative mind and thought today as it normally should? For the sake of convenience, ...

ANDOVER — Julianne DiBlasi took a trip down memory lane in order to pen, and sketch, her latest interactive book about her hometown and illustrate the places she loves and misses. An artist and author ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Stowe, Harriet Beecher maker Strong, Thomas W. Description Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe was published in 1852, quickly becoming the nation’s bestselling book. It ...

In news that can only be described as “you’ve got to be kidding me,” yet another white woman is causing unnecessary headaches at her workplace. And when we tell you how, you’re sure to scratch your ...

Greenery abounds in this leafy suburb of Boston, a Massachusetts getaway named for its botanical features and spanning 13 ...

An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...