It is amazing how much the human perspective has changed in the last fifty years. Before the expansion of modern medicine and psychiatric care, people were exposed to brutal procedures and morbid beliefs. In the last 500 years, many strange political ideals have been adopted all over the world.

African Americans in World War I. War Department. Officers of the Buffalo Soldiers", 367th Infantry, 77th Division in France. 1917-1919. Photo credit: NARA

Book — Non-fiction. By David F. Krugler. 2015. This book details the wave of racist violence that swept the United States in 1919, through the lens of Black armed resistance and freedom struggle.

America in the summer of 1919 ran red with blood from racial violence, yet today, 100 years later, not many people know 'Red Summer' even happened.

1937-1938: Portraits of African-American former slaves

By Lestey Gist, The Gist of Freedom One of The First, Interracial Riots, Blacks and Whites, Anti-Slavery Supporters Rioted together, in defense of Anthony Burns, a Self-Emancipated

Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu...

A new book puts the black working class at the center of American history.

A former slave in Alabama learned that his people in Africa had been introduced to the Gospel by a former missionary to Nigeria who visited his cabin near Mobile.

In 1887, African-American cane workers in Louisiana attempted to organize—and many paid with their lives

Dr. George Washington Williams, one of the first great African-American historians, through the Internet and film, has recently been brought back to our

Some of the worst racial violence of the 20th century took place a few miles from Ferguson.

It was by far the deadliest racial confrontation in Arkansas history and possibly the bloodiest racial conflict in the history of the United States.

Fourteen slaves who petitioned the New Hampshire Legislature for their freedom during the Revolutionary War were granted posthumous emancipation Friday.

The San Diego History Center tells the diverse story of our region – past, present and future – educating and enriching our community, preserving our history and fostering civic pride.

His very name hovered on the line between slavery and freedom: Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall. Orindatus was a slave's name, through and through. It had...

Big-city crimes pale in comparison to the shady, monstrous deeds carried out in hamlets and villages across the country.

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For decades, there have been few photographic images of Harriet Tubman depicting how the abolitionist and Civil War spy looked in her lifetime.

Submitted by the Event Organizer Come hear your State Reserve Band bring to life the fascinating and forgotten tale of Jim Europe. A leading

Roslyn, Washington, was a coal mining town located at the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains. The first commercial operations in Roslyn were initiated in 1886 by Logan M. Bullet, Vice-President of the Northern Pacific Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Within two years, the town’s population grew to over 1,000 as ...

Fugitive slave family crossing the Rappahannock River into Union-held territory in Virginia.

Historian Herbert Gutman conducted research on the women of the Good Hope Plantation of Orangeburg, South Carolina and what he found was heart wrenching but nonetheless expected. Most young girls by the age of thirteen and fourteen were already mothers. By the time they were twenty, most already had given birth to as many as five children. But in ...

From 1881 to 1920, the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association worked hard to force the Minnesota legislature to recognize their right to vote.

Mills spent the next decade researching the barbershop trade for his book, Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America, drawin...

Trailer for the documentary work-in-progress "Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People" produced and directed by award…

Nearly 500 white men destroyed the integrated Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire.