Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War
When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I
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Public History
Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the
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Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium
If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the
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Black Public History in Chicago
As part of the research for his book Black Public History in Chicago: Civil Rights Activism From World War II
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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive
In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.
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