This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A vivid rumor began circulating in the United States in the middle of ...

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Before the Civil War, numerous enslaved people made the treacherous journey to Mexico in a bold quest for freedom that historians are now unearthing By Richard Grant Photographs by Scott Dalton Diana ...

It stunned audiences with a sold-out run at New York Theatre Workshop. Now, Slave Play is coming to Broadway. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, "one of the most promising playwrights of his generation" ...

Digging a stadium-sized scoop out of one of the oldest sections of a city brimming with history is bound to unearth fragments of the past. In Shockoe Bottom, those fragments are likely to have a ...