Black history

How racial hierarchies are embedded within the archival standards and practices that legitimize historical memory.

Historians should watch films like Judas and the Black Messiah as much for their filmmaking as their history making.

For centuries, stories of Black communities have been limited by racism in the historical record. Now we can finally follow the trails they left behind.

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.

A state with an often-overlooked history of enslavement demonstrates the lasting significance and geographic reach of the Haitian Revolution.

Be Woke Presents Black History in Two Minutes (or so).

“Whenever there’s a tragedy in black America, there’s always been an uptick of black history courses."

How the story itself came out.

How and why a Los Angeles folk artist created a vast array of intricate dioramas to form the African American Miniature Museum.

Running through all of historian Gerald Horne's books are the twin themes of revolution and repression.

With so little documentary evidence about his life, he is a virtual blank slate upon which different people at different times have inscribed a variety of meanings.

America is covered in Confederate statues. We can do better — and here’s how.

What does Black History Month leave out?

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.

Why did Carter G. Woodson choose February, and what was his vision for the annual commemoration?

The 2024 OAH Conference on American History falls almost fifteen years after the renowned historian, teacher, and activist's death.

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

In Chicago, preservationists have launched an unusual effort to explore the radical history of the 1960s civil rights group through the city’s built environment.

The neglected history of Black mapmaking in America and the creative ways in which Black people have historically used mapping to tell stories.