Though the story of Civil War has been explored thousands of times through almost every artistic medium, rarely has the irony inherent in the existence of the Jewish Confederate slave-owner been ...

“The Whipping Man,” a deeply powerful 2011 drama by Matthew Lopez, imagines a reunion of a slave owner’s son, just back from fighting, and two of the family’s slaves in the last moments of the Civil ...

Police have said they have taken an interest in the viral video recording showing a school director flogging a man and a female student, said to be his lover, after the director’s actions attracted ...

The Whipping Man examines a vital, but not often spoken of period in American history, the post-Civil War South, as former slaves and slave masters struggled to acclimate to the new emancipated social ...