Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call is part of In The Making, a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of ...

'10 Million Names' project uses ancestry research to shed light on U.S. history. Genealogists and researchers are tracking down archival documents from across the country to piece together the ...

The world is upside down – and has been for a long time. I remember reading some time ago – indeed, I may have already ...

As historians Ed Baptist and Sven Beckert show in their respective books, American slavery was an economic engine for the global economy. The South’s production of cotton drove industrialization ...

According to cotton historian Stephen Yafa, “cotton was domesticated simultaneously in India and Peru some 5,500 years ago.” Cotton, and cloth made from it, gradually moved west to Europe and ...

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and ... Even today we can see prisoners picking up litter along interstates and highways accompanied by armed ...