What is one to make of the career of Dr. Joseph Dennis Harris, which once soared far beyond the strictures of race and class ...

At the beginning of the 19th century very few people in Africa were practising Christians apart from Ethiopians, Coptic Egyptians and people living in the remnants of the Kongolese Empire (modern ...

and 19th-century watercolor sketches were snapped up by bidders. But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was ...

Eric Foner: In the language of the nineteenth century ... who were not at all certain they wanted to see black people as citizens and living with equality under the law. But they were very ...

In Stanisław Wasylewski’s monumental work Życie Polskie w XIX Wieku (19th-Century Polish Life), he ... when the Tsar decreed an amnesty – although people would still be imprisoned for wearing black up ...