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Jamaica

Rastafarians emerged from anti-colonial, anti-racism movements of the 60s, they also looked back toward their African ancestry.

Author Zora Neale Hurston, born on this day in 1891, is perhaps best known for Their Eyes Were ...

Maroon societies in Jamaica and the rest of the Americas have survived for hundreds of years.

One scholar sees more in the Christmas food of authors like Charles Dickens—English national identity and class.

Ongoing study and debate about gender neutral pronouns.

Horses and mules played a major role in the American Civil War. In the end, there were about twice as many dead equines as humans.

For most of the Jewish world, Hanukkah is a minor holiday. What happened in America?

Director Steven Soderbergh’s historical drama series, The Knick, brings viewers inside a New York City hospital’s operating room ...