The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...

The Time Travelin’ Genealogy Guild is celebrating a decade of service teaching and sharing research methods for family historians and genealogical researchers at the Putnam County Public Library. Ther ...

The story of the late Geraldine “Jeri” Cousins Palmer, her parents, their relatives and neighbors will be on display at their ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the ...

"Trace/s," the Brooklyn Public Library's newest exhibit, was unveiled last week in Downtown Brooklyn, connecting the legacy ...

For many Black Americans, knowing their complete origin story can be challenging because of how they came into the country.

Gómez, the first woman to direct movies in Cuba, created a body of work that’s revolutionary in form and politics alike.

New owners have purchased one of the Mother Lode’s oldest post-Gold Rush era schoolhouses, known in the past as Poverty Hill School and Stent Grammar School, where they plan to open a family ...

This would revert us to the 1800s, before President Chester A ... of the 9/11 victims might have been outraged by a deal.” Family members are certainly all frustrated. But there is a large ...