Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written.

In 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.

Scholars are mapping the international precursors of Nazism. By Alex Ross.

Historian Liam Hogan has spent the last six years debunking the Irish slave myth. By David M. Perry.

Amy Murrell Taylor reviews Eugene D. Genovese's "The Sweetness of Life: Southern planters at home" edited by Douglas Ambrose.

An 18th-century creole slaveholder invented the idea of ‘racial prejudice’ to defend diversity among a slave-owning elite. By Blake Smith.

The subject of this slim volume is “a series of events that are essential in understanding Japanese history” — events “totally unknown, incredible, and unpleasant to read.”

"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention." This new report, titled Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, is meant to be that intervention: a resource for teachers who are eager to help their students better understand slavery — not as some "peculiar institution" but as the blood-soaked bedrock on which the United States was built.

A Christopher Columbus statue in Trenton's Chambersburg neighborhood has become at least the fourth of the explorer's likeness to be vandalized in New Jersey this week. Lawmakers, officials and residents discussed the colonizer's place in American history on Columbus Day in October.

As a slave, he went by the name "Cudjo," a day-name given to boys born on a Monday, as the slavers could not pronounce the name "Kossola."

The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South’s memory of the Civil War. By Coleman Lowndes.

Nadia Murad grew up dreaming of owning a beauty salon. The youngest of 11 children in a Yazidi family in northwest Iraq, she took photographs of all the brides in her tiny village, studying their makeup and hair. Her favorite was of a brunette woman with curls piled high atop her head. But after ISIS overtook her village in August 2014, that dream died. Murad was captured, enslaved, sold, raped and tortured alongside thousands of her people in an effort to decimate their religion.

Humans are being bought and sold at modern-day slave auctions in Libya, according to an investigation by CNN. The news channel found evidence of two separate auctions, held after dark at undisclosed locations in the war-ravaged country, which has become the epicentre of the ongoing migrant crisis.

Once General Robert E. Lee’s right-hand man, General Longstreet would become known as ‘the Judas of the Lost Cause.’ By Gil Troy.

Confederate monuments don’t embody American history; they were built on lies about American history. By Ed Kilgore.

A white lawyer in South Carolina summed up the situation nicely: “We have gone through one of the most remarkable changes in our relations to each other, that has been known, perhaps in the history of the world.” By Andrew Hartman.

In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in legal racism—the United States. By Ira Katznelson.

Across the country, ICE detainees are allegedly being coerced into performing work without proper compensation. By Michelle Chen.

The Interior secretary argues that if we take down Confederate statues, we’ll need to remove ones of Union generals who mistreated Native Americans. By Eric Levitz.

Forced labour persists around the world, particularly for domestic workers