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Topic Archives:Black History

Owen Wister Award

Western Writers of America Announces Its 2024 Wister Award Winner

by David Lauterborn2/23/20243/11/2024

Historian Quintard Taylor has devoted his career to retracing the black experience out West.

freedmen line up to vote in New Orleans

During Reconstruction Southern Planters Called on the US Army to Enforce an Old Status Quo

by J. Jacob Calhoun2/5/20241/17/2024

The US Navy To Honor WWII Hero Dubbed the ‘Human Tugboat’

by Claire Barrett1/15/20241/18/2024
Ku Klux Klan regalia

A Battle Ulysses S. Grant Couldn’t Quite Win

by Gordon Berg1/8/20241/8/2024
Painting of the United States Senate, a.d. 1850, pub. C. 1855 colour lithograph. Compromise of Clay; Henry Clay 1777 - 1852

America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again

by Glenn W. LaFantasie1/2/20241/3/2024
Millie Ringold sitting in a Montana field

Born into Slavery, Millie Ringold Became Queen of all She Surveyed

by Catharine Melin Moser10/13/20238/30/2023
Photo of the 1935 Broadway production, opera Porgy and Bess.

African American Theater Performers Turned Stereotype Upside Down

by Daniel B. Moskowitz10/11/202310/11/2023
Photo of the brick Baptist Church on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island.

Reconstruction Failed. Why?

by Carl Zebrowski9/12/202311/10/2023
The Falls Church, Falls Church, Va.

Transformed From a Colonial Town to a Popular D.C. Suburb, Falls Church Holds a Handful of History

by Melissa A. Winn7/31/20237/28/2023
Painting of Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln in His Own Words: The 16th President’s Musings About ‘negro equality’

by Ross E. Heller7/11/20237/12/2023

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