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Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass Railed Against Economic Inequality

Never-before-transcribed articles from Frederick Douglass’ Paper denounce capitalism and economic inequality.

by Matthew Karp, Frederick Douglass via Jacobin on February 20, 2020

Two U.S. Marines, and dog, kneeling in front of grave marked with Christian cross.

Historic Iwo Jima Footage Shows Individual Marines Amid the Larger Battle

Films of the battle for Iwo Jima, digitized 75 years after they were made, offer lessons for Americans today.

by Greg Wilsbacher via The Conversation on February 13, 2020

The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave

William Dorsey Swann fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall.

by Channing Gerard Joseph via The Nation on January 31, 2020

The Genealogy Boom Has Hit a Roadblock. The Trump Administration Plans Huge Fee Hikes for Immigration Records.

The fees could rise nearly 500 percent for files documenting the arrival of millions of immigrants to the U.S. between the late 19th and mid 20th centuries

by Sydney Trent via Washington Post on December 5, 2019

When Young George Washington Started a War

A just-discovered eyewitness account provides startling new evidence about who fired the shot that sparked the French and Indian War.

by David Preston via Smithsonian on September 23, 2019

The University of Texas’s Secret Strategy to Keep Out Black Students

Long-hidden documents show the school’s blueprint for slowing integration during the civil-rights era.

by Asher Price via The Atlantic on September 19, 2019

The Historical Profession's Greatest Modern Scandal, Two Decades Later

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

by Bill Black via The Week on September 18, 2019

The Hidden Story of Two African American Women

An historian discovers the portraits of two women all bound up in the pages of a 19th-century book.

by Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay via The Conversation on September 9, 2019

Aaron Burr — Villain of ‘Hamilton’ — Had a Secret Family of Color, New Research Shows

The vice president is best known for killing rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. But he was also a notorious rake, historians say.

by Hannah Natanson via Retropolis on August 24, 2019

Open field by a highway.

The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond

Richmond has a long-forgotten graveyard that is the resting place for hundreds of slaves. Will a new railway be built over it?

by Samantha Willis via Scalawag on August 5, 2019

How a Historian Uncovered Ronald Reagan’s Racist Remarks to Richard Nixon

In a taped call with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan described the African delegates to the United Nations in luridly racist terms.

by Timothy Naftali, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on August 2, 2019

A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang

In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.

by Steven Hoelscher via Smithsonian on July 1, 2019

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy during the Pride 2014 parade in San Francisco, California.

Writing Gay History

How the story itself came out.

by Jim Downs via Humanities on June 27, 2019

The Civil Rights Activist So Close to Martin Luther King Jr. She Was Thought of as His ‘Other Wife'

According to the recent discoveries, civil rights activist, Dorothy Cotton, and King had a close romantic relationship.

by Jason Miller via The Conversation on June 24, 2019

A Gay First Lady? Yes, We’ve Already Had One, and Here Are Her Love Letters.

Rose Cleveland declared her passion for the woman she had a relationship with spanning three decades in letter after letter.

by Gillian Brockell via Retropolis on June 20, 2019

A scene from D-Day in New York City, June 6 1944

A WWII Combat Photographer's Long-Lost Images of D-Day in NYC

News of the invasion spread quickly that morning. Phil Stern captured a city still processing the news—but his photos were lost for decades

by Liesl Bradner via Made By History on June 5, 2019

Margaret Hamilton stands next to a stack of paper as tall as she is - the software she and her team produced for the Apollo project.

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth of chaos theory. Their previously untold story illustrates the changing status of computation in science.

by Joshua Sokol via Quanta on May 20, 2019

A Map of the Internet from May 1973

The modern internet has come a long way.

by Jason Kottke via kottke.org on March 28, 2019

Malcolm X

The Explosive Chapter Left Out of Malcolm X’s Autobiography

Its title, 'The Negro', seemed innocuous enough. But Malcolm X intended it to invoke a much harsher meaning.

by Zaheer Ali, Missy Sullivan via HISTORY on March 5, 2019

Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Tiya Miles.

Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019

Unnamed Black girl.

An Unnamed Girl, a Speculative History

What a photograph reveals about the lives of young black women at the turn of the century.

by Saidiya Hartman via The New Yorker on February 9, 2019

“My Dear Master”: An Enslaved Blacksmith’s Letters to a President

This document is the rarest of items in the Library of Congress's manuscript collections: a letter written by an enslaved person.

by Adam Rothman via Library of Congress on February 5, 2019

How the Founder of Black History Month Rebutted White Racism in a Forgotten Manuscript

Carter G. Woodson’s unpublished work was discovered in 2005 by a Howard University history professor.

by DaNeen L. Brown via Retropolis on February 1, 2019

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson's Archives

On a presidential paper trail.

by Robert A. Caro via The New Yorker on January 22, 2019

Sylvia Plath smiling outdoors.

What We Don’t Know About Sylvia Plath

On revelations from a chance graveside encounter.

by Emily Van Duyne via Literary Hub on January 22, 2019

In Found Audio, a Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out Was an Absolute Necessity

Though Bayard Rustin, close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr., was gay, his legacy is not well known in the queer community.

by Michel Martin via NPR on January 6, 2019

Malcolm X.

The Missing Malcolm X

Our understanding of Malcolm X is inextricably linked to his autobiography, but newly discovered materials force us to reexamine his legacy.

by Garrett Felber via Boston Review on November 28, 2018

The Partners of Greenwich Village

Did the census recognize gay couples in 1940?

by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 3, 2018

Mementos of a Forgotten Frontier

The black pioneers who tried to start over out west.

by Anna-Lisa Cox via Lapham’s Quarterly on June 14, 2018

Ira Berlin, Transformative Historian of Slavery in America, Dies at 77

He “put the history of slavery at the center of our understanding of American history.”

by Harrison Smith via Washington Post on June 6, 2018

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