A generation before the Civil War, riots flared up in many northern cities. In New York, Boston, Utica, and Cincinnati mobs broke up anti-slavery meetings, torm

Applying modern social science methods to the newspaper accouts, court records, and correspondence of the time, Mr. Richards reconstitutes these mobs, examines

In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that se

Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and he