The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took ...
Beware of myth as we approach the nation's 250th year. The true threat to America has always been a white supremacist ...
The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSN
Historic Sotterley releases book preserving Agnes Kane Callum's genealogy work
Historic Sotterley announced the launch of “The Kane Family: Slavery to Freedom at Sotterley,” a new book compiling and ...
The search for Apongo is a small part of historians’ ongoing work to recreate the lives of Africans taken in the ...
The Christmas Rebellion, led by Baptist leader Samuel Sharpe, challenged slavery and reshaped the nation’s history.
In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from ...
One hundred 95 years ago today, Mary Ann Macham was living her first day as a free woman. Born on a plantation in Virginia, sold for $450 when she was 12, Macham endured 17 years of abuse before ...
Wheatley’s work has been probed and scrutinized, both during her short life and after her death. But despite that, her verse ...
‘An insult’: Lawmakers lament failed effort to undo return of Confederate-linked military base names
Provisions to reverse the Pentagon’s revival of Confederate-era names on Army bases were stripped from the defense ...
Every week in Forward, our Monday newsletter, Brittany Carloni shares a short story from Wisconsin history. Today we present the last 12 editions of Back Words.
In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback