Too many people don’t know or care about our history. This isn’t a particularly new issue, as even in 1943, The New York ...

When we hear the names of writers, we usually think of their work first and not of the people who wrote them. But it doesn't change the fact that these authors existed and had full-blown lives that ...

There is something hauntingly powerful about the last photographs of history’s largest figures. In a single frame, they capture not just a person, but the silent weight of a life nearing its end ...

Ending a six-year battle that stirred ethical and legal debates about the ownership of photographs taken under duress, Harvard University has surrendered its claim to 15 daguerreotypes at the ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as ...

19 Black figures who changed history. Honoring the trailblazers whose courage, innovation, and resilience left an indelible mark on history and continue to inspire generations.

She arrived to view historic photographs of enslaved people she had recently come to believe were her own ancestors. Though excited, she steeled herself. She had seen the images online.