College of Staten Island professor and archivist Dr. James Kaser wrote the study of the Island’s Elliottville.

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On New Year’s Day 1831, a youthful New England newspaperman with a political bent launched his latest venture in social reform, promising a new era in American abolitionism. In the first issue of the ...

Almost 10 years after they first began discussing the book, authors Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché discussed their recently released novel, “How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against ...

Let’s unpack prison abolition and how the U.S. came to incarcerate 2 million people. The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and people across the political ...

BEDFORD, NEW BEDFORD IS A CITY RICH IN HISTORY. PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THAT NEW BEDFORD AND MASSACHUSETTS WERE SAFE PLACES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS. PEOPLE DIDN’T CARE WHAT COLOR YOU WERE. YOU COULD GET A JOB ...

The crushed remains of a dilapidated house on Route 10 in Marshville, south of Canajoharie, may look like just another rundown building. But research compiled in a book published recently by the ...

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At the New York Women’s House of Detention, three inmates stare out the windows, 1941. (Photo by Irving Haberman / IH Images / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 ...