Freedmen’s Bureau courts provided a forum for newly emancipated people in the “uncertain legal landscape” of the defeated Confederacy.

Ancient DNA reveals how the Chesapeake Bay population changed over centuries.

As vital to the success of industrial New England as the mill girls who toiled in the factories were the women who oversaw their lodging.

In the twenty-first century, dictators are less likely than their predecessors to use violence to suppress dissent, cultivating instead “informational autocracies.”

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Noema, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Conrad’s celebration of imperial exploration is accompanied by an acknowledgment that such feats often go hand-in-hand with oppression and exploitation.

Court records can function as a kind of archive for those without any other paper trail in history: free people of color and the enslaved.

An English professor considers the questions raised about selecting queer works for study and discussion when planning a course on LGBTQ+ literature.

Until the Civil War, US Army officers relied on enslaved servants even while serving in “free states.”

Plus his manifesto on Personism and writings about O’Hara by Ted Berrigan, Joseph LeSueur, and Joe Brainard.