In this authoritative, elegant biography, Daut draws a complex, contradictory portrait of Henry Christophe, also known as King Henry.

Chris Anderson was leafing through various books in Allegheny College’s archival collection when he came across a long “lost” artifact. “I was planning an event and I was looking randomly through some ...

Two days after the Lager Beer Riot, on April 23, 1885, Chicago citizens convened at South Market Hall for a public meeting on ...

Elon Musk wasn’t the first to shape the national conversation. Joshua Norton, a San Francisco cult figure, was.

A Richmond museum is preparing to open an exhibition in June that will explore the lives of free Black Virginians from 1619 ...

Trump is one of a long line of U.S. officials who’ve threatened annexation. History offers clues as to why they haven’t ...

After being exploited for decades by France, Haiti ended up forking over huge sums of money to its former colonizer. Now, the ...

Geotab donates to food bank, money raised for SCF, TAT award nominations open, TA names award winners, and students learn ...

Joshua Norton, a British-born South African immigrant, declared himself Emperor of the United States in 1859, gaining beloved ...

Repealing an 1820 law banning slavery in territories north of Missouri's southern border, the Kansas-Nebraska Act left both territories (as mapped out in 1855) up for grabs. Library of Congress ...

France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...