Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

For poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, as for the Black Romantics, history is the repetition of anti-Black violence that has yet to be abolished.

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

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 century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

A look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage.

Historians have revealed that the story Americans long learned about the end of the Civil War was a myth.

A new graphic book unpacks the role that some White women played in suppressing voting rights for all — and the lessons today in the fight for universal ballot access.

The Black Woman’s Organizing Archive highlights work in the 19th and 20th centuries that benefitted Black women and American society as a whole.

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

As Frederick Douglass’s master put it, a slave who learned to read and write against the will of his master was tantamount to “running away with himself.”

When the river freezes, lives change.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

How African American women represented Black motherhood in the early nineteenth century.

Racism — not reformers demanding redress — is the source of American strife.

How African-Americans in Early America celebrated the Declaration of Independence's ideals, even as basic freedoms were denied to them.

How three late 19th century equality movements failed to promote equality.

How a group of 19th-century Quakers cut their economic ties to slavery.