The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from colonial times ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

At a Pride parade in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a few days ago, my daughter bought a pink T-shirt with a hand-printed design. As ...

History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the institution of slavery was being threatened, ...

Think of slavery and the first image that comes to mind is a 19th-century Southern cotton plantation. However, by the 1630s, slavery already existed in all 13 colonies with the first enslaved ...

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight to enslavement even as they perpetuated it.

Mercantilism drove certain brutal activities, including slavery and an imbalanced system of trade. Colonies faced periods of inflation and excessive taxation, which caused great distress.

Baylor's Meet the Author series held a conversation to unpack the story of early Baptists in the American South.