With millions of Americans enduring one of the harshest winters in recent memory, the work of African American inventor Charles S.L. Baker may spark renewed interest...
With the global pandemic nearing its one-year anniversary, the National Park Service has temporarily closed its historical sites. But, here are five of our favorites that...
Historians and political scientists are turning to the past to frame the discussion about the more than 50 million Americans who have already voted before Election...
With students back in school, the September traditions of a new academic year have been largely rewritten to accommodate the novel coronavirus. The debate over the...
Tara Buckner visited the Washington, D.C. home of abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass during a business trip to the nation’s capital in 2018. She still remembers the...
Fifty-six years have passed since President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The legislation represented the first major social justice accomplishment...
John Lewis is one of the few architects of the modern Civil Rights Movement still living, having moved from the firebrand voice of the Student Nonviolent...
June 19th is Juneteenth, a combination of June and 19th. On this day – 155 years ago, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Union army General...
Breonna Taylor’s name is the most recent addition to the tragic list of Black women killed by police. The #SayHerName Movement launched in 2015 by attorney...
The anniversary of Brown versus the Board of Education is this weekend. It has been sixty-six years since the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision...