Sen. Bernie Sanders is famous for railing against the 1 percent and lamenting the conditions of the modern working class. But early in his career, he went even further to cast those workers as victims ...

Most ordinary people work hard every day, and music, films and literature have, at times, done an admirable job of exploring the sorrows and triumphs of the working life. Nonetheless, the mundane ...

A sobering piece of history from the permanent collection of the African American Historical Society of Portsmouth is headed to Richmond this summer. It’s the latest step in local efforts to bring key ...

The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s “Purchased Lives” exhibit explores the history of slavery in American life. At a museum discussion this Thursday titled “The Lingering Impact of the American Slave ...

Topics include enslavement, the economics and politics of slavery, slaves' sex and family lives, manumission and ex-slaves, everyday resistance, gladiators and the great slave revolts, and the decline ...

IN 1881 SOMEONE donated an antique brass circlet to the Rijksmuseum, the Dutch national museum of art and history. The object (pictured) is a bit of a stumper. Engraved with a heraldic shield and the ...