Harriet Tubman

A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.

How Oct. 1 came to be celebrated as “Jerry Rescue Day” in abolitionist Syracuse.

How is the first half of the 19th century depicted in and around the nation’s capital? Ed Ayers hits the road to find out.

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.

Navigating the line between historical records and mystic imagery to understand the Underground Railroad.

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

From Phillis Wheatley to Lil Uzi Vert, Black names and their evolution tell the story of America.

Restriction and deportation exist in opposition to the political traditions of the African American freedom struggle.

'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'

“Here we are, a group of Black lesbian feminist anti-imperialist anti-capitalists trying to do the right thing.”

At a recent commemoration of the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia, songs of struggle took center stage.

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.

The new note comes 125 years after the free silver movement tried—and failed—to use currency to forge a national identity.

The left regularly dismisses such women as less worthy of recognition.

New Jersey was known as the slave state of the North, and our early economy was built on unpaid labor.

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.

‘Struggle: From the History of the American People’ charts the strife of early US history in a fierce Cubist/Expressionist style.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

Underground Railroad simulations have ignited controversy about whether they confront the country’s darkest history or trivialize its gravest traumas.

Activists and preservationists are changing the kinds of places that are protected—and what it means to preserve them.