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Study of American Democracy on Cal State Chopping Block

Faculty proposal would split a U.S. history and ideals required sequence across the CSU system. Historians aren't happy with the idea.

Facial recognition software to identify Civil War soldiers

Photo Sleuth may help uncover the mysteries of nearly 4 million photographs of Civil War-era images.

‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement

Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. 

What Catholic Church records tell us about America’s earliest black history

by Jane Landers

These records date back to the 1590s and document some of the earliest black history of the U.S.

Not Every Woman Who Served With the U.S. Military During World War I Got the Same Treatment. Here’s Why

By the time the United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917, two thousand women had enlisted as “Yeoman (F).”

A high school government class wanted to help solve civil rights crimes. So they drafted a bill that is now law

It began as an effort to make government more transparent.

The Trailblazing Black Female Doctor That American History Forgot

Rebecca Crumpler wrote one of the first American medical guides to offer advice for women and children.

Wyatt Tee Walker: Chief strategist for Martin Luther King Jr. in the struggle for civil rights

by Taylor McNeilly

Walker was hailed as “one of the keenest minds of the nonviolent revolution” by none less than King himself.

Green Book and the Oscars' Complicated History With Movies About Race

While many supporters of Green Book believe it’s a clever inversion of old tropes, its detractors see its victory as a continuation of the Oscars rewarding a familiarly naive story, told from a familiarly white viewpoint.

The 9/11 compensation fund is running out of money

The fund for victims of the terrorist attack is struggling to meet all claims.

Seven Black Inventors Whose Patents Helped Shape American Life

Garrett Morgan created an improved gas mask. Marie Van Brittan Brown patented a home security system. Lonnie Johnson dreamed up the Super Soaker.

Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

Historians find fingerprints of long-forgotten South Carolina enslaved people in 200-year-old bricks

“There aren’t a lot of physical resources to connect us to enslaved people here. It’s a way to put your finger in those fingerprints and and feel connected."

The Lost History of FDR's Court Packing Scandal

Some Democrats are talking about adding justices to the bench. But the revelations show almost no one understands what really happened back in the 1930s. 

Civil War soldier’s gravestone discovered, may offer vital clue to long-lost African-American cemetery

The Civil War soldier’s headstone offers an insight into the lives of those buried at the Frankford site.

Mexicans and Mexican-Americans the ‘forgotten dead’ in Texas history

Jim Crow-style discrimination against Mexican-Americans routinely occurred in Texas, some of it even into the 1960s.

Charles Dickens Tried to Banish His Wife to an Asylum, Letters Show

“This is a stronger and more damning account of Dickens’s behavior than any other."

These Photos of a Segregated U.S. Navy Unit Were Lost for Decades. They Still Have a Story to Tell

Miller created deeply empathetic images with a understated, yet unmistakable anti-racist intent.

A Separate History? How Blacks and Whites View Black Leaders

There were some significant differences between blacks and whites in terms of their knowledge of the figures the pollsters examined with blacks being more knowledgeable in almost every case.

Old Yearbook Photo Shows Tennessee Governor Dressed as Confederate Soldier

The governor’s statement comes as racially insensitive photographs in old yearbooks have increasingly raised demands for accountability and explanation from the prominent individuals associated with them.