Most retellings of Black history in the United States start with Britain’s city of Jamestown, where enslaved Africans were first brought to the Virginia Colony in 1619. It has become an iconic ...

Now, that slaveowner happened to be an out and out sadist. He not only ran a domestic amphitheatre of death, he was more than ...

The writer explores the historical journey of racial politics in America, tracing the path from the oppression of Black ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

The New York Times Magazine’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for “The 1619 Project,” will speak at Sonoma State University Thursday night.

New research shows that when the whaling industry in the US produced more products, the proportion of slaves also declined in ...

Trump singled out a few museums, including the Smithsonian, dedicating a whole section of an executive order on 'saving' the ...

Most recent debates center on how much attention should be given to the history of the nation’s accomplishments over its ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” targets the Smithsonian ...