Two of Jones’s previous books, “A Dreadful Deceit” and “Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow,” were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History. “No Right to an Honest Living” is her fifth book.

Another woman went next, explaining that Stacy seemed to see people of color as better or more desirable, that her statement ...

Our biggest mistake would be to believe that we’re watching an exceptional departure in the country’s history. Because from ...

Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.

In his new book, , Hahn aims to tell a different kind of story: one in which illiberalism is not a backlash but a central ...

By Hubert Dymitri “Linus” Haraszewski As an incarcerated out and proud anarchist, other inmates sometimes ask about my belief ...

By the 1770s, abolitionism was a full-scale movement in Pennsylvania. Led by such Quaker activists as Anthony Benezet and John Woolman, many Philadelphia slaveholders of all denominations had ...

But by taking up the mantle of a single cause, abolitionism, Adams found both influence and respect. Northern abolitionists ...

In ‘Morning After the Revolution,’ the former New York Times reporter takes aim at the supposed excesses of today’s left ...

I started digging into the biographies; I read the letters and the journals, which are by themselves just an amazing literary ...

In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772–1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their ...

Skaneateles was a center of abolitionism. The area is also known to have been active with the Underground Railroad (the nearby city of Syracuse was a center of abolition and the Underground Railroad).