Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Painter surprised ev...

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern...

The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern...

Born into a Georgia sharecropper family in 1898, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to wo...

Our story begins in Greek and Roman antiquity, where the concept of race did not exist, only geog...

The first major migration to the North of ex-slaves.

The Immeasurable Want of Light (IWL) is a play, illustrated by famed historian and painter, Nell ...

Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Ir...

Offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederat...

Sojourner Truth: ex-slave and fiery abolitionist, figure of imposing physique, riveting preacher ...

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape a...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dram...