As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Ball, a free man of color, opened a one-room photo studio in Cincinnati in 1845, but the business soon folded. He honed his ...

Liberia is a country that was founded as a place to relocate freed African American slaves in the 19th century, according to the BBC. The relocation served as a solution to the “issue” of African ...

Alleging that Latter-day Saints are neither white nor Christian alleviates some of the tension, and possibly some of the ...

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University, Sarna has been a force in his ...

The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

An antislavery spy who worked for the British in New York in the 1800s lived in a house that is now home to an allergy doctor ...

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...