It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

Historians have shown that, during the 1800s, beads produced in Venice were a key commodity exchanged for ivory along the ...

An exhibition in Gee’s Bend, AL tells the story of Dinah Miller’s arrival and her enduring influence on the community, its ...

Moreover, even equating “mayors” is, to some extent, Big Apples and oranges. The mayor initially led a New York City that ...

A new digital The Resistance Trail of Southwest Georgia spanning more than six Southwest Georgia counties reveals that Albany’s Courthouse was the site of the second-largest single sale of enslaved ...

Canada’s energy debate has suddenly flipped upside down. Federal and B.C. politicians, once mostly opposed to pipelines, are now falling over themselves to promise new gas, oil and hydro-electric mega ...

Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial ...

Today the black hair product business is a billion-dollar industry, fueled by black women's desire to keep their tresses looking good. But hair in black America is not just about aesthetics. It's ...

In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...

We explain how aluminium went from a luxury metal to a world changing material. In the 1800s it was more expensive than gold.

Africans brought to the Thirteen Colonies faced hardships and resisted slavery in their quest for freedom. Untold is a free ...

The white folks had all the courts, all the guns, all the hounds, all the railroads, all the telegraph wires, all the newspapers, all the money and nearly all the land – and we had only our ignorance, ...