Black history

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

The resistance and unionism of enslaved and freed Black women in the midst of the Confederacy is an epic story of sacrifice for nation and citizenship.

Cecil Brown wants to digitally revive the enslaved antebellum poet George Moses Horton. Can digital technology help reconnect us to the tradition he embodied?

With "Force and Freedom," Carter Jackson makes a stimulating and insightful debut which will have a major influence on abolition movement scholarship.

In "Ordinary Notes," Sharpe considers Black culture “in all of its shade and depth and glow.”

An agency spokesperson claimed that the move had nothing to do with politics. Internal emails show otherwise.

Natchez, Miss., is beginning to highlight the history of its enslaved people—including at a Black-owned bed and breakfast in former slave quarters.

No one should fear a history that asks a country to live up to its highest ideals.

"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.

A new biography examines the life of the abolitionist, newspaper editor, activist, and globetrotter.

Innovators are using digital tools to tell stories of the city’s Black and Latinx history.

A new book illuminates how Black Americans used property ownership, common law and other methods to assert their rights.

To Heather Cox Richardson, the battle for our history is the battle for our democracy. And we may be nearing the endgame.

After a year of controversy, the city has narrowed down five options for a monument to the activist and abolitionist.

What happens when radical historians write for the public.

The long-term impact of Quarles’s work.

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

The paradoxes of C.L.R. James.

The Florida governor’s long-ignored 2011 work, "Dreams From Our Founding Fathers," reveals a distinct vision of American history.