From the years of slavery through the years of civil rights, images of black people have taken many forms. Some of these images were positive and s...

Arguably our most obscure president, and generally judged mediocre at best, Millard Fillmore came to the presidency in July 1850 when his predecess...

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor had a 40-y...

Zachary Taylor (24 November 1784-9 July 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Taylor's short Presid...

A companion volume to the three-book set "Select Works of Edmund Burke", this text includes seven of Burke's major contributions to English politic...

This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explore...

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman Empire. Given the fact that the ...

Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...

Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings--including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal c...

Frederick Douglass, a former slave, became the leader of the abolitionist movement. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Sl...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

In De instauranda Aethiopum salute (1627)--the earliest known book-length study of African slavery in the colonial Americas--Jesuit priest Alonso d...

Calhoun's most important constitutional and political writings are now available as complete, unabridged texts and in a single volume, many for the...