CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

High quartzite beds appear vertically as if they were books on a shelf in what could be the world’s oldest bookstore or library between...

"The captain sulked. He did not seek out anyone for conversation. He avoided meeting the stares of his friends. He kept his head tilted...

"The captain wore a freshly washed blousy shirt and tight, blue pants. He had primped for this visit much like a beau does for a call on...

“A retired teacher, known as Auntie Lyuda, short for Lyudmyla, was shot midmorning on March 5 as she opened her front door on a small...

Port Royal, Jamaica, founded in 1494 by the Spanish, was the largest city in the Caribbean when the crew of the Good Hope visited it in...

"On my passport it says that I am an artist painter, not a professor or any other title. I prefer to be a free woman." ...

"All they knew was that, in Port Royal, the ground did not roll under their feet, and there would be new faces. They forsook evening...

"Sarah had enjoyed humiliating Adrian because she had been humiliated in a society, which had locked her out. When Adrian escaped, she...

July 18, 1944: Photographers and reporters at the site of the Port Chicago munitions explosion. Virginia de Carvalho is in the foreground....

The shipper wondered whether the sailors’ superstitions he had debunked held some truth. Perhaps the African Star had been sucked down...

Photo by Ricardo Graça/EPA I entered the office of my parish, Ervedal da Beira, in Oliveira do Hospital, with excitement, trepidation and...

"No man shall talk of breaking up their way of living until each has shared one thousand pounds. If any man should lose a limb or become...

"Not knowing who I am is like being locked behind a closed door. My adoptive parents understood my obsession to open the door and get to...

“I would like to thank the board and the assembly for their sympathy, and I will send word to our suffragette sisters abroad, who...

Slavers bringing captives on board their ship on Africa’s west coast (19th-century print) Pirating Slavery, my novel about...

"Why do you keep pushing me away with your jealousy and anger?" (Jealousy and Flirtation, oil painting by Haynes King , 1831-1904)...

"In the whirl of the tragedy, Adrian had pinned down an obsession. For him, the stranger’s life symbolized freedom and his death, a...

J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship (1840) was originally entitled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon Coming On by the...

J. M. W. Turner's The Slave Ship (1840) was originally entitled Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying -- Typhoon Coming On by the...

Commander Augusto Arnaut (left) of the Pedrógão Grande Volunteer Firefighters arriving at the Tribunal Court of Leiria A panel of judges...