Slavery
A New Discovery Puts Panama as the Site of the First Successful Slave Rebellion
Deep in the archives, a historian rescues the tale of brave maroons
Three Pioneering Scholars Who Died This Year
They believed that the stories of marginalized communities were worth chronicling
Haiti's Beloved Soup Joumou Serves Up 'Freedom in Every Bowl'
Every year, Haitians around the globe eat the pumpkin dish on January 1 to commemorate the liberation of the world’s first free Black republic
Richmond Removes Its Last City-Owned Confederate Monument
The statue of Ambrose P. Hill had stood at a busy intersection since 1892
The Ten Best History Books of 2022
Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and illuminate how the nation ended up where it is today
The Nation's First Woman Senator Was a Virulent White Supremacist
In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a Georgia women's rights activist and lynching proponent, temporarily filled a dead man's Senate seat
The Forgotten Father of the Underground Railroad
The author of a book about William Still unearths new details about the leading Black abolitionist—and reflects on his lost legacy
The Father-Daughter Team Who Reformed America
Meet the duo who helped achieve the most important labor and civil rights victories of their age
The Blue That Enchanted the World
Indigo is growing again in South Carolina, revived by artisans and farmers with a modern take on a forgotten history
These Descendants Never Forgot the Story of the Last American Slave Ship
A new Netflix documentary follows the families of the "Clotilda" captives as they grapple with how their past informs their future
What a Spanish Shipwreck Reveals About the Final Years of the Slave Trade
Forty-one of the 561 enslaved Africans on board the "Guerrero" died when the illegal slave ship sank off the Florida Keys in 1827
The Gold Coast King Who Fought the Might of Europe's Slave Traders
New research reveals links between the 18th-century Ahanta leader John Canoe and the Caribbean festival Junkanoo
Panama's Black Christ Festival Stirs Up Sorrow and a Sense of Survival
For Afro-Panamanians, October offers a chance to celebrate Catholicism and their Blackness
The Real Warriors Behind 'The Woman King'
A new film stars Viola Davis as the leader of the Agojie, the all-woman army of the African kingdom of Dahomey
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Whose Database Identified Thousands of Enslaved Laborers, Has Died at 93
Searching through forgotten records, she collected data on more than 100,000 individuals
A.P. African American Studies Is Coming to U.S. High Schools
The course covers everything from slavery to civil rights to pop culture
Before Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, This Russian Czar Freed 20 Million Serfs
The parallels between the U.S. president and Alexander II, both of whom fought to end servitude in their nations, are striking
How an Enslaved Woman Took Her Freedom to Court
A new statue honors Elizabeth Freeman, who argued against slavery in a Massachusetts legal case
New American Girl Doll Celebrates Black Joy During the Harlem Renaissance
Nine-year-old Claudie Wells' story unfolds in 1920s New York
These 18th-Century Shoes Underscore the Contradictions of the Age of Enlightenment
An exhibition at Toronto's Bata Shoe Museum examines fashion's role in supporting social hierarchies that emerged during the landmark intellectual movement
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