Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

How America’s history, including its unpleasant truths, has been taught to students has changed for the better. But today, the progress in telling the true story of American history has been reversed.

The notion that all books celebrating the vibrancy and vastness of Black History are too boring and only of the textbook variety is long gone. There were a […] ...

With a 250th birthday in sight, we wanted to ask Americans what it means to be an American and reflect on what the founders ...

For all the stories and tales enshrined at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., there are bound to be figures and impactful lives that slip through the cracks, whose details are ...

From the outset, “Edward L. Blackshear at Prairie View,” a new book by John A. Adams Jr. (Texas A&M University Press), ...

A highway marker erected last fall honors Moses Grandy of Camden County, whose life story helped elevate understanding of the institution's brutality and increase calls for its abolition.

Anela Malik worked as a diplomat before becoming a storyteller about Black food history — and much more. She hosts the web series, “Our Block,” about Black businesses and local heroes, organizes ...

A Maine-based historical fiction author has released a novel aimed at preserving the truth about the horrors African ...

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...