Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), Polish-American author, was admired for his re-creation of the forgotten world of provincial 19th-century Poland and his depiction of a timeless Jewish ghetto existence. Isaac Bashevis Singer was born on July 14, 1904,...

Isaac Bashevis Singer, the only Yiddish writer ever to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, was among the most popular and widely read authors of the twentieth century. By the time of his death at the age of eighty-seven, Singer had received a lion'...

Isaac Bashevis Singer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, first began to write for children in 1966. Three of his first four books were Newbery Honor Books; his fifth, A Day of Pleasure, was the winner of the National Book Award in 1970. H...

A ship bearing the name Amistad once again set sail for the Atlantic, tracing a 19th-century route of the slave trade.The Freedom Schooner Amistad, a near-replica of the ship that sparked a slave revolt, left its home port here on a windy but sunny day...

Over more than three centuries, more than 12 million Africans were loaded on ships, bound for the Americas to be slaves.Aboard the slaver, or Guineaman, as the vessels were also known, the kidnapped Africans frequently had to travel in living quarters as cramped as coffins,...

The presidential mansion where George Washington and his slaves once lived were leveled long ago, but a new monument will keep their complicated, and sometimes painful, legacy alive for generations.The National Park Service and city officials announced Tuesday the selection of a design by a...

The presidential mansion where George Washington and his slaves once lived were leveled long ago, but a new monument will keep their complicated, and sometimes painful, legacy alive for generations.The National Park Service and city officials announced Tuesday the selection of a design by a...