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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thomas Jefferson’s proclamation of “self-evident truths” in the Declaration of Independence was a turning point in world history. It was a clarion call for all peoples to demand liberty, equality and ...

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 ...