The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...

“It’s not enough to declare a month of recognition when the systems we rely on to repair justice are not ...

As we commemorate 100 years of celebrating Black History, we face new levels of erasure and displacement. Carter G. Woodson first created Negro History Week in February 1926, during the Harlem ...

The administration took a crowbar to a site that focused on George Washington and slavery. But can the contradictions of the Founding Era be erased?

Talk about good timing. Antisemitism, an American Tradition, a powerful new book by American University professor Pamela Nadell, has just been published. The book comes at a time when certain sectors ...

In the post, the White House makes no mention of the key role slavery played in the war and glorifies the wider "Manifest Destiny" period, which resulted in the displacement of hundreds of thousands ...

A complex understanding of the past is vital to understanding what’s happening in the United States today. But many of us often don’t get the historical background we need in school. For example, to ...