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'an archeology of race relations'

Seen together, art works can tell a larger story. A narrative that spans four millennia informs a small but stirring exhibition at Harvard as well as the monumental research and publishing project that is its inspiration. More »

Details of slave life under Cherokees emerge in new book

In her new book, "The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story," author Tiya Miles paints the most detailed picture yet published of the lives of the black slaves to the Cherokee. A professor at the University of Michigan, where the Harvard graduate teaches both Afro American and Native American studies, Miles has emerged as a leading scholar of relations between the Cherokee and African Americans in the early 1800s. More »