Southern History and Landmarks

These African American history museums amplify the voices too often left unheard

Through the 18th and 19th centuries, the predominant opinion in the United States was that Black Americans had no history, says Joy Bivins, director...

How One of America’s Most Influential Black Writers Befriended a Pioneering American Aviator

Paul Laurence Dunbar, a prodigious black poet, and Orville Wright, a precocious white inventor, became entrepreneurial...

How Fiction Helps Bring History’s Extraordinary Yet Forgotten Women To Life

“Just because I’m a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one!” These words were uttered more than a century ago by a...

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