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The great-great-grandson of 19th-century British Prime Minister William Gladstone said he was horrified to learn seven years ...
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.
DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.
What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...
This week, it was reported that the United States National Park Service had begun scrubbing information from its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; one of the most significant ...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the ...
Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...
The president’s recent executive order directed at the institution will face a lot of procedural headwinds before he can MAGA ...
Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...
France's demand that Haiti pay it an indemnity to compensate dispossessed French slave-owners when the nation became ...
"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...
Recent changes by the Trump administration are affecting how US museums and institutions tell the nation's multicultural ...