When J D Harris (1833–84) began studying medicine in 1863, there were few African American doctors whose paths he could follow. The first university-trained African American physician, James McCune ...

Women presenting as men — whether to escape the stifling construct of feminine life or to stay close to husbands or brothers ...

During the Jim Crow era, Black tourists to Maine found recreational spaces where they were welcomed, not shunned.

Jones describes in her book “Birthright Citizens,” the question of citizenship was foremost on the minds of abolitionists and free Black people in the years before the Civil War. Meeting in ...

Companies like Disney, General Motors, and Pepsico are quietly backing away from diversity initiatives and language.

The Rhode Island secretary of state's office cultivated the virtual exhibit “Bullets and Bulletins: Black Activism in the Civil War Era ... Precious Birthright Book Talk,” John Brown ...

who historians believe to have been executed via firing squad along with the rest of the Russian Imperial Romanov family during the Russian Civil War. Instead, Smith is considered to be one of ...

Trump gloats as Taylor Swift booed at Super Bowl and backs Elon Musk’s government cuts: Live - President mocks pop superstar ...

In Brassroots Democracy, author Benjamin Barson presents a “music history from below”, embracing the Haitian revolution, post ...

Nearly 10 years ago, the New York University professor, historian and Pulitzer Prize winner was sitting in historic First Congregational Church, admiring a triptych of stained glass windows installed ...

His research and teaching focus on the political, social, economic, and intellectual history of the early United States from its early struggles through its near dissolution during the Civil War. His ...

On Feb. 15, 1885, 140 years ago next week, Mark Twain’s best work of fiction, “Huckleberry Finn,” was first published in the United States. Critics berated the book. In Concord, Massachusetts, ...