Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the ...

On Tuesday, President Trump attacked the narrative long taught in US schools and documented in museums, about the abhorrent, centuries-long practice of slavery. He focused on The Smithsonian ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

The Archdiocese of Washington launches a historic initiative to honor people enslaved by the Church in Maryland, including ...

Then-Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz and Gov. Ron DeSantis oversaw the introction of new educational standards that require students to learn that enslaved people “developed skills which, in ...

“You shall not forget.” These words, from Jewish tradition, are not optional. They are a sacred commandment. Memory is not only about honoring the past — it is about safeguarding the future. When ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. As experts on the ...

In all the recent discussions of slavery that I have heard in the media, I am struck by how rarely these aspects of the history have been emphasized. After all, this abuse was not incidental or ...