How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor

Presents a collection of ancient spells and incantations that have been adapted for modern times.

A revisionist history of the radical transformation of the American South during the Civil War examines the economic, social and political deconstruction and re

Explores a Washington, DC slave trader's legal misadventures associated with transporting convict slaves through New Orleans.

As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazi