Artwork of the Celebration of Emancipation Day in Charleston, South Carolina, Jan. 8, 1877. The procession forming near Citadel Square. Author Ira Berlin argues “that freedom’s arrival was the product ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Berlin, a prize-winning historian revered for his exhaustive groundbreaking scholarship into slavery and life during its aftermath, has died at age 77. Berlin’s death was confirmed ...

Ira Berlin was a transformative historian of slavery in America. (John Consoli / University of Maryland) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional ...

In this book Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its demise nearly three hundred years later. Most ...

Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages A four-hundred-year history of the ...

Ira Berlin examined the long process of emancipation in his Lowell Humanities Series talk Wednesday night. His work looks at slavery as a complex institution, not just as something simply outlawed by ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Ira Berlin is a Distinguished Professor for the History Department in the University of Maryland, College Park with 13 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance ...

Ira Berlin, a historian whose research and acclaimed books helped reveal the complexities of American slavery and its aftermath, died on Tuesday in Washington. He was 77. The cause was complications ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Berlin, a prize-winning historian revered for his exhaustive groundbreaking scholarship into slavery and life during its aftermath, has died at age 77. Berlin’s death was confirmed ...

Historian Ira Berlin discusses the underground railroad and African Americans in both the North and the South on the eve of the Civil War. The notion of an underground railroad sets up ideas of ...