Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

But his work is far from over You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts Untold Stories of American History During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it. In 1934, two young ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Conserving and restoring Southeast Asia's carbon-rich peatlands and mangroves could mitigate more than 50 per cent of the region's land-use carbon emissions, according to a new ...

Dorsey, a prominent black artist in 19th-century Philadelphia who is known primarily for his extensive scrapbooking of black community history. Read the article above to find out more. Just in case ...