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.

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Ocean Vuong is the award-winning author of the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and the poetry collections Time Is a ...

"All the way from Iceland," he says to himself. "That's crazy." A few days later, I stand in an abandoned parking lot in the shadow of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, in Walnut Hills, waiting for my ...

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 ...

Over a two-night stay, I took in the surroundings, explored Boston, and packed in as much adventure as possible. The post ...

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 ...

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