Since I was a kid I’ve been fascinated with history, pouring for hours over a collection of front pages of The Columbus Dispatch that my mom bought me at the state fair, or a reprint of a 1903 Sears ...

I’m not sure if it’s possible to get sick of good barbecue, but one hunter may eventually find out for all of […] ...

McElwee’s 1985 masterpiece “Sherman’s March” is a would-be historical documentary hijacked by the floundering love life of its director. Revisiting some of the folks from that film, "Remake" attempts ...

I’ve been known to push the documentary Sherman’s March onto people with the fervor of an evangelical. It’s so many things at once — a time capsule of mid-1980s aesthetics, a menagerie of eccentric ...

Jose Antonio Robles came to Branciforte as one of nine “convict settlers,” jailed for petty crimes. He was born in Zacatecas, ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a recently released interview signaled an openness to reparations for slavery in the city. “We often think about slavery and the complicity in slavery as ...

Ross McElwee, a longtime diaristic documentary-maker, assembles a personal ode to the troubled boy on the edge of his frame who became a drug addict.

A slave-trading business in Atlanta in 1864. The photo was taken by a Union Army photographer during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s occupation of the city. (Library of Congress) Public officials with ...

Mamdani Open to NYC Reparations for Role in Slavery ...

President Trump, the Republicans, and the Supreme Court are rolling back all the gains made by our people over the last 162 ...

During much of the Civil War, the Militia Act of 1862 allowed Black soldiers to be paid less than white soldiers. Black ...