EMANCIPATION: HOW LIBERATING EUROPE’S JEWS FROM THE GHETTO LED TO REVOLUTION AND RENAISSANCE By Michael Goldfarb Simon & Schuster, $30, 408 pages, illus. REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN This one of those ...

Emancipation Park Conservancy will host a reception and panel discussion as UNESCO globally launches their publication, Legacies of Slavery: A Resource Book for Managers of Sites and Itineraries of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Carole Emberton, PhD, an associate professor of history in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss her new book, “To Walk About in Freedom: The Long ...

The Miniature Emancipation Proclamation was the first book edition of the declaration that freed American slaves. As many as 1 million of the miniature books were distributed to Union soldiers during ...

Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, ...

Robin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of ...

Americans are still working through why and how the Emancipation Proclamation came into being The proclamation's sesquicentennial is being marked by speeches, ceremonies, books and exhibits Historians ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln presided at the annual White House New Year’s reception. Later that afternoon, he retired to his study to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. The first time he attempted to ...

In The Long Emancipation, Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he ...

The scholars Joseph P. Reidy and Lizabeth Cohen have won the prize, one of the most prestigious honors in the field of American history. By Jennifer Schuessler A sweeping reconsideration of the ...