Kris Manjapra’s new book, “Black Ghost of Empire,” examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.

Governments from Durham to Providence have launched racial equity initiatives, but the long work of restitution can’t stay a local matter.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

David Brion Davis's trilogy was fifty years in the making, and the final volume was worth the wait