Richard Mentor Johnson

Her name was Julia Chinn.

Amrita Myers paints freedom as a process in which Black women used the tools available to them to secure rights and privileges within a slave society.

Why the nation's ninth vice-president – and his black wife – were purposely forgotten.

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

Outlandish rumors helped elect Presidents Jackson and Van Buren and have been with us ever since.