Bill Black

What did Truman and Oppenheimer actually say in that room?

Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.

Christmas starts earlier every year — or does it?

A Flourish data visualisation by Bill Black.

If Booker T. Washington never knew when he was born, how are we so sure about it now?

Emory professor Michael Bellesiles resigned in the midst of a political firestorm. He still stands by his work.

Or better put, why is it something so many outside of the South have recently adopted?

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 

Before its subversion in the Jim Crow era, the fruit symbolized black self-sufficiency.