Powered by coal and iron, it transformed the nation into the world’s workshop, while its navy secured global commerce. The triangular trade of the 1600s — raw materials and enslaved Africans taken ...

The kingdom of Dahomey, at its peak, dominated the sliver of West Africa known as the Slave Coast. From around 1724 until the eighteen-sixties, when the last slave ...

Slavery—and it’s harrowing and depraved legacy—still has modern-day repercussions for Black Americans. It lasted four centuries and was the worst crime against humanity this country has ever committed ...

This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations on Aug. 1, 2025. One of the hardest jobs of a policymaker is to weigh trade-offs. Few policies are clean, absolute, and ...

Sugar's history is far from sweet. What we now see as a basic pantry staple used to be a rare luxury. For centuries, it was ...

I see memorialization as the physical manifestation of our collective experience, memory and history. Our engagement with these spaces allows us to simultaneously reach back into the past and project ...

After months of turmoil since U.S. President Donald Trump reignited his trade war with China, a deal between the world’s two biggest economies could be on the verge of pacifying globally upended ...