Real-life political events are often dramatized to be displayed on the big screen as well as television. These movies cover ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

A child accused. Everyone left to answer.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer as the source for this wrenching silent work.

Slavery is a subject that has been tackled on screen many times before, most recently in Django Unchained, but comparing Tarantino's violent drama to this introspective slow burner is like ...

Early in the 19th century, a young American is sent, with a seaman bodyguard, to Tripilo to buy the freedom of American sailors held as hostages by the Pasha. The ransom gold is stolen from him by ...

Birth, which snatches its title from D.W. Griffith’s abjectly racist 1915 film, recounts the 1831 slave uprising of Nat ... even as he picked up roles in films like Red Tails and The Secret ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture illuminates the brutalities of slavery and Jim Crow while also celebrating black Americans' political, intellectual, and cultural ...