People coming from the north settled South America. The first hunter-gatherers entered the continent from the region of what ...

The SS United States—once dubbed ‘America’s flagship,’ and considered an American icon through the 1950s and ’60s—was towed ...

On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris of what — until a ...

Some of the most famous mosaic murals in California, Disneyland and Disney World are the work of Hanns-Joachim Scharff, a ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

In June, he will be representing his dual cultures — Cambodian and Philly — at his first James Beard Awards, as a nominee for ...

Harvard University will transfer photos of enslaved people to a S.C. museum after legal challenges from a woman who believes ...

One of the world’s oldest diseases has an even more complex history than expected. Research out today reveals that a form of ...

A previously unknown ancient population has been uncovered in Colombia, revealing a genetic lineage unlike any seen before in ...

As Black and Indigenous stories are being banned and censored, the burning of Nottoway exposes what America still protects, ...

The enslaved people in the photos are alleged descendants of Tamara Lanier, who accused Harvard of capitalizing on the images ...

A key question of the case was whether Harvard could legally be allowed to continue owning dehumanizing images of enslaved people who couldn’t consent to taking part.