Elizabeth Keckley

Keckley’s decision to write about her employers from the viewpoint of a household laborer--she was seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln--enraged audiences.

But her memoir caused a rift with Mary Todd Lincoln.

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

Enslaved women's use of birth control, abortifacients, and even infanticide showed that they resisted by exerting control over their reproductive lives.

A new book shows us the capital region's earliest years through the eyes and the experiences of leaders like Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth Keckley.

Once John E. Washington started to dig, he found an incredible wealth of untapped knowledge about the 16th president.

Refusing myths of joy and pain in slave narratives.

The smallpox epidemic of the 1860s offers us a valuable, if disconcerting, clue about how epidemics actually end.

Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.

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