purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. Introduction: Social death in the lands of their forefathers -- A ...

Juneteenth is a very significant holiday for Black people. Observed every June 19, it marks the day in 1865 when Union troops landed in Galveston, Texas, to free the last enslaved Black Americans.

On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

CHARLOTTE — After two former classmates discovered their past was intertwined through slavery, they’re starting important conversations in their community. It wasn’t enough to just share their story ...

Much has been written about St. Louis’ slave history. The study of census tracts of the times notes the city’s rapid growth of Black slaves increased from 268 in 1799 to 2,656 by 1850. A mere 30 years ...

Fifty years after NASA put the first men on the moon, this 2019 history documentary was released to celebrate the essential wonder of that historic space mission, without extraneous commentary.

Donald Trump’s war on history appears to have widened, with The Washington Post reporting that his administration has ordered the removal of multiple signs and exhibits at national parks related to ...

The Renaissance is often imagined as a period of European artistic and intellectual flourishing, yet its depictions frequently erase the presence of Black Africans who lived in cities like Venice, ...