In 1728, as a group of residents in the western part of Chester County sought to create a more locally administered county, their petition to the authorities mentioned that “thieves, vagabonds and ill ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An 1842 U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning the kidnapping conviction of a White man who seized a Black family and forced them into slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line ...

(See Cover) Green eyeshade under a crop of white hair, heavy shoulders bent over an ancient desk, the Harvard Law School’s Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound wrote slowly, pouring the wisdom of his 87 years ...

Historian Mahmood Kooria of the University of Edinburgh has urged scholars to rethink some of the most taken-for-granted assumptions that shape modern engagements with the premodern global history of ...