The Grimke sisters, Sarah and Angelina, have been highly revered figures in American history, lauded for leaving behind their lives as elite, slave-owning women on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand abolitionists in the North. Yet the focus on their story has obscured the experiences of their Black relatives, the progeny of their brother, Henry, and one of the enslaved people he owned, a woman named Nancy Weston. In The Grimkes,...
Cooler weather means more time indoors with a good book in our hands. As we head into fall, there are so many exciting new literary releases. For history buffs, this season's crop is particularly great. Here are eighteen hotly anticipated titles.