As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Brothers in Law is a recurring series by Professors Akhil and Vikram Amar. For more content from Akhil and Vikram, please see ...

Food and cooking play a big role in Juneteenth celebrations. The barbecues and fish fries woven into Black culture helped shape American cuisine.

Staatsburg will discuss the Black community of 19th-century Dutchess County in a talk on June 21. Contributed photo ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a traditional jazz funeral.

A fire that destroyed the big house on Louisiana's Nottoway Plantation led to a predictable response, with some Black people cheering and some white people mourning.

The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and creator of “The 1619 Project” argues that Trump’s civil rights rollback is returning the US to the 19th century.

This is the way US history is typically taught in high schools and college survey courses, which usually present the country’s historical self-understanding and founding political identity in a rather ...

She joined us to talk about the 19th century Supreme Court case that the Trump administration invoked as part of its argument for why it should be able to overturn birthright citizenship.

The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker poet from Massachusetts, who discovers his talent for poetry with the encouragement of his schoolmaster. Despite facing challenges ...

The 1885 Ballantine House has been reimagined to be more inclusive, with a temporary exhibit on 19th- century Black women.

Please join us for the fifth symposium in AEI’s “We Hold These Truths: America at 250” initiative as legal scholars and political scientists discuss how the American Revolution both ...