In Natchez, the past and future of Mississippi tourism are colliding on the silver screen as travelers seek a greater truth from antebellum mansions.

Delegates from 17 congregations of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America heard five hours of argument in a church ...

The Plymouth Historical Museum's new exhibit tells the story of George Jackson, a free Black man who married a white woman in the 1800s in Plymouth.

With nearly all of the victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre now dead, the country must find other ways to rectify its wrongs.

William Sanders Scarborough was an African-American ex-slave who authored a Greek textbook. His First Lessons in Greek ...

Explore how American agriculture expanded in the early 1900s, from George Washington Carver’s crop innovations to rising fertilizer use.

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the ...

Dawn in the nineteenth-century South did not politely announce itself. It arrived early, hot, and heavy, pushing thick air through open windows long before the rooster had finished bragging about ...

Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

One of North America’s richest ecosystems, sustained and shaped by Native peoples before European contact, nearly disappeared ...