Native American adoption era history The Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Indian Adoption Project in 1958. Like the Boarding School Initiative, the goal of forced Native adoptions was to ...

The pandemic supercharged interest. Now, a cultural and political emphasis on women staying at home is continuing to fuel ...

The origins of the month Black History Month wasn't always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week.

During the past 500 years, American history developed out of the epic encounter between Indians and European empires and out of the struggles for sovereignty between Native peoples and the U.S ...

Restoring Truth And Sanity To American History The March 27 executive order calls for the removal of "divisive, race-centered ideology" at the Smithsonian Institution, and instructs the Interior ...

What led to the start of Black History Month, and why February? Born in Virginia, Woodson was the second African American to receive a PhD from Harvard and the first to earn a PhD from Harvard ...

The existence of African American studies, he says, challenges the dominant, Eurocentric view of history—and dares to declare the worth of Black citizens. Despite ongoing tussles over these ...

Celebrating Black history by visiting on these seven museums is one the Blackest things you could do for Black History Month. And if you are a visual learner, the African American museum is a good ...

One of the most pivotal moments in Japanese American history was when the U.S. government uprooted more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry and forced them into incarceration camps. But there ...

Grim pieces of America’s history are on display at the Ruby & Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum in Stratford, the first and only African American history museum in Connecticut ...