Sublime

In Walter’s home, there is a box with a letter that Napoleon Bonaparte wrote to Toussaint L’Ouverture. And in another, letters Romare Bearden wrote to a lover. There’s a first edition of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, by Harriet Jacobs, which is perhaps the most significant slave narrative written by a woman. His version was the pseudonymou

That same morning Henry Flagler, now eighty-two, left his home, Whitehall, in Palm Beach. He was frail and his sight was failing, but nothing was about to stop him. Not after spending $12 million on a series of hotels, $18 million on his land-based railroad, and another $20 million or more on his “railroad across the sea.” On this day he would boar

Until recently, it was thought that the Dismal Swamp, which stretches from south Virginia through North Carolina, was a modest settlement at best, and that Maroon communities founded by runaways were rare in United States slavery. But recent archaeology has revealed it was a settlement that was sustained over generations. Literally thousands of peo

His change in plans, the decision to stay, came one year after his arrival, in September 1847, when he was offered the chair of natural history at the Lawrence Scientific School, an institution newly established at Harvard partly for the purpose of keeping him in the United States.

It took considerable doing, but on April 9, 1901, nearly two years after he had proposed to Mary Lily, a bill was introduced into the Florida legislature “to be entitled an act making incurable insanity a ground for divorce.” Before the month was out, the bill had sailed through both houses and had been signed into law by the governor. Florida news

The middle-class African American enclave of Liberty City began to change earlier, in the 1960s, when I-95 was built right through Overtown, displacing residents. And as a result of changes wrought by the civil rights movement, middle-class Black people started to move into neighborhoods previously covered by racially restrictive covenants that had

Perkins spent the twelve years of Roosevelt’s presidency doing more than anyone other than FDR himself to make the New Deal a reality. Everything on her list became law, most notably social security, changing the basic relation of Americans to their government. She also desegregated the Labor Department cafeteria, tried (and failed) to bring large

Il n’y a aucun doute : c’est vraiment Saint-Domingue-Haïti qui fait prendre un tournant décisif au mouvement d’indépendance créole. Afin de vaincre la résistance acharnée des troupes espagnoles, Simon Bolivar cherche à obtenir l’appui des ex-esclaves rebelles de l’État caribéen, où il se rend en personne. Le président est alors Alexandre Pétion, qu