African Americans in the North lived in a strange state of semi-freedom. The North may had emancipated its slaves, but it was not ready to treat the blacks as citizens. . . or sometimes even as ...

A study published in Nature uncovers a previously unknown North African genetic lineage from the African wet period, around 7 ...

For centuries, and still today, the Middle East and North Africa have been the site of major civilizations that have attracted attention from afar. Likewise, a great deal of scholarship has explored ...