A traveling exhibit highlighting the contributions of pioneering African Americans in Virginia is making its way to libraries and historical institutions across the Commonwealth, allowing communities ...

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By Charleton and Marissa Yingling “It shows, in a strong light, the heaves and throes of the burning mountain, three years, at least, before the explosion of the volcano in Massachusetts or Virgini…

Ahead of Monday’s ceremony, we chat with Emory University’s Erica Armstrong Dunbar, co-executive producer of HBO’s Emmy-nominated show.

I love the opening scene of the movie Glory. It’s really the only moment in the film that covers Robert Gould Shaw’s military career prior to accepting the colonelcy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment...

Dr. Jason Doll, associate professor of fisheries, Dr. Ivan Dungan, associate professor of mathematics, and Dr. Erica Johnson, associate professor of history, have been named Francis Marion University’...

By Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV A map of the Holy Roman Empire near the end of the eighteenth century does not resemble a modern national map of Europe. Its surface breaks into electorates, duc…

Patrick J. Mahoney, The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism (NYU Press, 2026). In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the Fenian movement stood at a crossroads…

What's up next for the Civil War Memory Book Club.

By Shubham Yadav The imagery that revolution invokes depends on the standpoint of the spectator. Revolution, for the elites and powerholders, is bloody, chaotic, disruptive, and tumultuous.[1] For …

By Hugo Sanchez Aranguren American audiences often know Simón Bolívar as the “George Washington of South America.” The analogy orients, but it compresses a life of revolution, contradiction, and st…

Lonnie Bunch's message to his staff is a reminder of what's at stake.

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Catholics from Osage and non-Osage backgrounds gathered Oct. 20 in Pawhuska to celebrate the Roman Catholic Church’s first ever canonization of a Native American.

By Laura June Davis Living in the state of Georgia—the newest, most remote, and most intimately connected colony to Great Britain during the Colonial and Revolutionary Eras—students often view the …

Nando Sigona As the 2026 FIFA World Cup gets underway, one statistic stands out: 289 of the tournament’s 1,248 players were born in a country different from the one they represent. Nearly one…

Born into slavery around 1800, David Drake was a skilled ceramicist. His work will be on display at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as the institution marks America's 250th birthday

Power to the People, Y’all, a documentary about the Black Panther Party in North Carolina, explores what that means in practice

Emancipation didn't just free four million people. It rebuilt the country the rest of us still live in.

The AHA and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture co-hosted The Future of the African American Past, a landmark conference to celebrate the opening of the NMAAHC.

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