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Of Bodies and Souls: Representing the Historically Marginalized in ‘The Spirit Photographer’

Of Bodies and Souls: Representing the Historically Marginalized in ‘The Spirit Photographer’

In Jon Michael Varese's latest, exposure and concealment interweave into an intricate tapestry of interconnected motivations and intentions.

The Story of a Nation Built on Murder, Theft, and Cruelty

The Story of a Nation Built on Murder, Theft, and Cruelty

The specter of slavery draws unavoidable correlations to contemporary American society in Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad.

‘Blood at the Root’ and the Cultivation of Racial Hatred in America

‘Blood at the Root’ and the Cultivation of Racial Hatred in America

The story of Georgia's all-white Forsyth County and how they made it that way.

A History Unchallenged: ‘Lincoln’

That Great Intriguing Mulatto: ‘Brazil: An Inconvenient History’

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, by John Stauffer