As Labor Day approaches, we should reflect not just on the holiday’s own important history, but also on the much longer fight to protect American workers. W.E.B. DuBois famously described the American ...

Roland Fryer’s “The Economics of Slavery” (op-ed, June 18) draws attention to several lessons that economists and historians have brought to light by studying the institution of slavery. Mr. Fryer ...

NMAH copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? This was something that southern secessionists ...

Introduction. Slavery's capitalism / Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman -- Part 1. Plantation technologies. Toward a political economy of slave labor : hands, whipping-machines, and modern power / Edward E ...