"Brooklynites" uncovers the 19th-century struggles of Black residents in what was a New York slaveholding hub.

One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

The book also contains anecdotes about the death of her partner and revelations about her mother, a gifted painter who ...

Many people are shocked and saddened at how badly Harvard has stumbled in its efforts to reveal and repair the legacy of slavery at Harvard.  These stumbles may in fact be the most eloquent expression ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

From picture books to graphic novels, fantasy to family fun, these must-read books have the power to hook kids of any gender. Some are cultural touchstones that belong in every kid's library. Others ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Gen. William T. Sherman‘s infamous “March to the Sea” is covered almost antiseptically in American history texts. Yet, ...

Minnesota becomes embroiled in a debate over our shared history. Currently, two of our state’s most important cultural institutions, the University of Minnesota and the ...

National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts goes through a journey of self discover and healing while study sunken enslavement ...

No one is trying to topple the Alamo quite yet, but a new revisionist book on the foundational event of Texas history partakes of the iconoclastic spirit of our time. The book, titled “Forget the ...