The American Library Association has proclaimed Sept. 22-28 Banned Books Week to draw attention to the issue. In honor of the occasion, Random House imprint One World is hosting “Free Your Mind,” an ...

The Lynn Museum will host a program this week on the Hutchinson family, the most popular and arguably most controversial ...

In senior year in my boys New England boarding school English classes we studied American literature. Or, in 21st Century grievance diction, we were brainwashed with the American Renaissance.

Curtis was held in high esteem by Douglass, and Harlan entered that pantheon. I would wager that Justice Story, author of Prigg v. Pennsylvania, would not make the cut. Third, Douglass uses the ...

A National Book Award-winning historian and Harvard University professor will speak about Harriet Tubman in Auburn later this ...

Professor Gates has published numerous books and produced and hosted an array of documentary films. The Black Church (PBS) and Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (HBO), which he executive ...

August, roughly a month and a half before his new book, The Message, was set to be published, and Ta-Nehisi Coates was in my ...

Richland, urged Republicans to stand against the Prager University Foundation. The conservative K-12 site, commonly referred ...

Vorenberg teaches at Brown University and is the author of the forthcoming book ... Lincoln also met with the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass. He told Douglass that he expected to lose ...

Another week of high school football is in the books. How did Mark Stoops‘ upcoming recruiting class look on the gridiron?

Her lecture, inspired by the quote from Wendell Phillips in the 1845 introduction to Frederick Douglass’s first autobiography ... an accomplished author, and a Democratic candidate for ...