Booker T. Washington

On the anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s historic Atlanta speech, we look back at the rare 1908 recording so that his words would not be lost to history.

If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?

Ron DeSantis wants to retrofit history to conform to conservative ideology.

Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins invented the setting that eventually became Wakanda in her science fiction, but her name isn't widely known.

Pauline Hopkins, Booker T. Washington, and the Fight for The Colored American Magazine.

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented how the educational institutions shaped a generation of black leaders.

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

A rally at Faneuil Hall in support of the Fourteenth Amendment and congressional investigation of southern disfranchisement.

The famed agriculturalist deserves to be known for much more than peanuts.

Following in the footsteps of 20th century African Americans, Ethelene Whitmire experiences a 21st century transatlantic crossing.

Du Bois's ideas about the environment — and how Jim Crow shaped them — have gone relatively unnoticed by environmental historians.

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

Reflecting on the tremendous impact of "The Souls of Black Folk," on the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth.

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

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

A historian explores his own family's history to understand the African-American community’s internal pigmentocracy and the absurdity of racial binaries.

After February 28, 1967, the main reason to go was to get a job.

Understanding the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the early twentieth century gives insight into the roots of today’s reactionary activists and policymakers.

Julius Rosenwald understood that charity is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary.

It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated to weather scorn, rejection and even violence from their peers.