Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, I notified my followers on Instagram that I was speaking to Yahoo! News about what such a monumental attack on reproductive […]

The ambitious exhibition, which the community can see for free Sunday, is both a display of profound artistic expression and an act of defiance after federal funds to preserve and show the quilts were...

Robin Washington shares the story of how he learned about his father's contributions to The Slip Stream - a newspaper for the Casper Army Air Base.

Celebrate Black Press Day on March 16, recognizing the history and significance of Black-owned newspapers in the United States.

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Martha S. Jones' new memoir draws on genealogical research and memories shared by relatives

Historian Mia Bay will discuss the her book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice. This session is part...

A newly available memoir reveals a tender, private side of the global celebrity

The courts ruled in favor of the Mendez family and their co-plaintiffs in California, finding segregated schools to be unconstitutional.

On June 12, the weekly People’s Historians Online mini-class featured a conversation between Martha Jones and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson about Reconstruction and issues of citizenship, suffrage, and m...