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A New Museum Specializes in Black Genealogy. Here’s What I Found Out About Myself.

A Basket Maker Keeping Alive, and Reinventing, an Ancestral Craft

Alabama Sculpture Park Aims to Look at Slavery Without Flinching

Philip Schuyler Is Knocked Off His Pedestal in Albany

Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal

The Troubles of 1776

The Enslaved Artist Whose Pottery Was an Act of Resistance

On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance

Telling Stories of Slavery, One Person at a Time

Honoring Juneteenth Through Art in Galveston

What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?

He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom

The Sinking of a Bust Surfaces a Debate Over Denmark’s Past

The Ideas Behind Trump’s 1776 Commission Report

‘Sedition’: A Complicated History

‘Sedition’: A Complicated History

Uncovering Lost Black History, Stone by Stone

At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery

Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art

Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes