On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey was hanged in Charleston, S.C., for his role in planning one of th...

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups -...

A panoramic history of African Americans in colonial America, ranging from the Seven Years' War t...

Gabriel's Rebellion tells the dramatic story of what was perhaps the most extensive slave conspir...

This collection of essays examines the lives and thoughts of three interrelated Southern groups -...

Soon after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, abolitionists...

John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamito...

In 1822, thirty-four slaves and their leader, a free black man named Denmark Vesey, were tried an...

MAKING AMERICA: A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, BRIEF SIXTH EDITION, presents history as a dynami...

Annotating and interpreting a vast collection of documents that illuminate and contextualize the ...

Few American lives covered as much ground as that of Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Born to New Engl...