Frederick Douglass

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.

We know why they were built and why they have to come down.

For Ralph Waldo Emerson, political activism was full of empty gestures done in bad faith. Abolition called for true heroism.

W.E.B. Du Bois’s exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition offered him a chance to present the dramatic gains made by Black Americans since the end of slavery.

Leading conservative pundits today are pounding themes that were popular among opponents of Reconstruction.

When African Americans allied themselves with the British, the Patriots were enraged, and they acted.

Pittsburgh’s Lower Hill District was razed by the federal government 65 years ago. Now developers are testing the question of how to correct for a racist past.

This year’s Juneteenth commemorations must take a deeper look at the history of Black self-liberation to understand what emancipation really means.

A new history charts the radical agitation around Black rights and freedom back to the early nineteenth century. 

The pre-Civil War North was a landscape not of unremitting white supremacy but of persistent struggles over racial justice by both Blacks and whites.

1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.

John Marshall Harlan's relationship with an enslaved man who grew up in his home showed how respect could transcend barriers and point a path to freedom.

Fixating on Black vaccine skepticism obscures a rich history of Black medical and scientific innovation.

A new book tells the forgotten story of fugitive slaves who found freedom south of the border.

A new biography details the cultural jumble of literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the making of the foremost self-made American.

Why are Chicago’s race riots of 1919 overlooked in the city’s collective memory? A new project tells the stories of the 38 killed, and the legacy of racism in the U.S.

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

In the decades after the Civil War, Black Americans warned of the dangers of Confederate monuments.

When Tuskegee student Sammy Younge, Jr., was murdered in 1966, his classmates focused their righteous anger on a local monument.

Emilio Sanchez and the British government fought the lucrative business as American authorities looked the other way.