Lindsey Halligan, who is in charge of overhauling the museum system, would prefer to focus on the future.

Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant about the museums in Washington, D.C.

Senator Bill Hagerty brought up the three-fifths clause out of nowhere.

This is the second Confederate memorial the Trump administration has brought back in 24 hours.

Linda McMahon is going to great lengths to defend Trump’s push for “viewpoint diversity” in schools.

The university’s last “finest hour” was more than 200 years ago.

Harriet Tubman is now DEI, apparently.

Widening the lens to capitalism itself could yield insights on how to close the gap.

Enslaved families were regularly separated​. A new history chronicles the tenacious efforts of the emancipated to be reunited​ with their loved ones.

Pete Hegseth defended naming things after the Confederacy, a new report reveals.

Donald Trump’s victory has inspired a horrific wave of text messages targeting Black Americans.

John Andrew Jackson spent a night at Harriet Beecher Stowe’s home as he fled north. Why do so few traces of his visit remain?

A trip to Israel and Palestine in 2023 made Coates rethink one of his most famous essays.

Speaking at a congressional hearing, Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the far-right Center for Immigration Studies, argued that Haiti would have been better off if colonization—and, by extension, slavery—had continued for decades.

Vance made the comparison during an interview on a right-wing radio show.

Is the American experiment doomed?

Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.

The House speaker won’t exactly disavow the connection, according to a new report.

Nikki Haley keeps digging herself into a bigger hole.

In acknowledging slavery's role in the conflict, the presidential aspirant made clear the freedom she spoke about was that of the enslavers.