From ancestry and reparations to defining identity, the delineation movement is sparking conversations, and controversy, across Black America.

Black hair has been through more drama than a season finale of Scandal. From braids that carried secret maps during slavery to the never-ending debate over natural vs. relaxed, our hair has been both ...

Music and history often coincide with each other in a cause-and-effect relationship. Whether it be that music incites something in history or the other way around, the two are inseparable and heavily ...

Isn’t someone going to do something? It’s a refrain we’ve been hearing quite a bit lately. That feeling of exasperation – and what happens when the despairing find common cause – permeates the ...

Juan Williams appeared on this week's 'Firing Line with Margaret Hoover' and reflected onthe successes and challenges of the civil rights movement in the 21st century. HOOVER: You write about one of ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world ...

In preparation for the country’s semiquincentennial, Yale history professors Beverly Gage, Joanne Freeman and David Blight will teach a one-time-only course called “America at 250: A History” this ...

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...