Making American patriots isn't the point of history classes.

Setting up a classroom battle between 1619 and 1776 gets history totally wrong and is damaging for our nation.

Often portrayed as an abolitionist, Hamilton may have enslaved people in his own household

As the state reels from power outages, Democrats look to turn the tables on the Republicans who dominate state government.

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

A paper by a researcher at the Schuyler Mansion finds overlooked evidence in letters and Hamilton’s own account books indicating that he bought, sold and personally owned slaves.

Reopening after a tumultuous year, this Lower East Side institution is addressing the omissions and erasures in the neighborhood’s history — and its own.

For the Zulu club, a black social organization in New Orleans, Mardi Gras was a joy. The coronavirus made it a tragedy.

Since 2001, faculty, students, and staff at more than seventy US colleges and universities have researched their institutions’ histories of involvement with the enslavement of people of African

Friday, September 15, was the fourth anniversary of these Letters from an American, although they did not then have a title.

Brought from America to Paris by John Jay, an enslaved woman named Abigail died there trying to win her liberty as the statesman negotiated the freedom of the new nation.

Louisiana Library workers or libraries who seek membership in the largest professional organization would be criminalized for doing so.

“My reasons for teaching the 1619 Project are not entirely intellectual,” writes educator John Duffy.

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For years the mayor in Newbern was appointed, not elected. When Patrick Braxton won the election, the outgoing mayor and his cronies refused to accept it

An exhibition on Seneca Village, which was destroyed to build Central Park, pays homage to a forgotten chapter in New York City history.

The five officers charged with the murder of the young Black man are also Black, complicating the anguish and efforts at police reform.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards! Criticism: Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (Harvard Univ. Press) Poetry:...

As a young boy growing up in New Orleans, Clint Smith felt socially, intellectually and emotionally paralyzed. “(I was) inundated with messages about all the things that were wrong with Black people,...

In 1968 and 1985, student demonstrators at universities across the United States made history. In both years, a nationwide mass uprising involving hundreds of thousands of students took over the...

A new exhibit at Northwestern University is exploring America’s race relations dating back to the early 1800s. “A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence” spotlights the country’s...

Stacie Marshall, who inherited a Georgia farm, is trying on a small scale to address a generations-old wrong that still bedevils the nation.

The president needs to make the case for a big expansion of government spending.

Penn faculty and Columbia’s JVP and SJP chapters filed separate lawsuits to block repression of Palestine solidarity activism at their schools.