Harriet Jacobs

How a folklorist encourages people to experience the past and present of a place.

A new career-spanning book offers a portrait of Painter’s career as a historian, essayist, and most recently visual artist.

The language that has long been critical to covertly mobilizing activism.

African American women’s voices from slave narratives to #MeToo.

Why "Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl" by Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861), became a hit in Japan when it was published there in 2013.

Over the course of her 83 years, the megawatt star that was Tina Turner kept telling us who she was in the hopes that we would see her — all of her.

A new biography explores the work of the influential abolitionist Lydia Maria Child, who wrote about the social, political, and cultural issues of her time.

Two centuries of New England intellectual history through the lives and ideas of people who are memorialized there.

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.

This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.

No, the Civil War didn’t end slavery, and the first Africans didn’t arrive in America in 1619.

New Year's Day used to be widely known as "Hiring Day" or "Heartbreak Day"

White women and the economy of slavery.

Though Donald Trump has made it into a catchphrase, he didn’t come up with the metaphor “drain the swamp.”

In navigating lives of privation and brutality, enslaved people haggled, often daily, for liberties small and large.

How sexual assault victims in colonial America navigated a legal system that was enormously stacked against them.