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 ...

Long before the first shots were fired in the Civil War, beginning early in the 19th century, Americans had been fighting a protracted war of words over slavery.      On one side, Southern planters ...