Frederick Douglass

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.

Thaddeus Stevens understood far better than most that fully uprooting slavery meant overthrowing the South’s economic system and challenging property rights.

Even after slave trade was banned, the United States and New York City, in particular, were complicit in allowing it to persist.

At the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue of the election was Black male suffrage.

The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.

The story of America can be told through the story of its periodicals.

His defiance changed baseball and helped assert Black people’s worth in American culture.

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

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

Jacob Lawrence was one of twentieth-century America’s most celebrated black artists.

In a new book, the often under-appreciated contribution that black soldiers made during the civil war is brought to light with a trove of unseen photos.

From "insurrection" to "rebellion" to "Civil War," finding a name for the conflict was always political.

Jonathan W. Wilson offers a constructively critical review of Wilfred McClay's American history textbook "Land of Hope."

Why did the man known as the “father of Black nationalism” defect to the Democratic Party during Reconstruction?

Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.

Tens of thousands of mutual aid networks and projects emerged around the world in 2020. They have long been a tool for marginalized groups.

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.