Might one thing on your mind — possibly the first thing — be, “Exactly how sharp is that axe?” Rachel McCarthy James is way ...

After a fire engulfed a mansion at Louisiana’s Nottoway Plantation, one of the largest remaining pre-Civil War houses in the ...

Dr. E. Curtis Alexander has dedicated his life to preserving the history of the U.S. Colored Troops, whose contributions ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South ...

The settlement marks the end of a 15-year battle to release the 19th-century “daguerreotypes," a precursor to modern-day ...

In all, NBC News counted 32 artifacts that have disappeared from public view at the National Museum of African American ...

As Black and Indigenous stories are being banned and censored, the burning of Nottoway exposes what America still protects, ...

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a Lowcountry museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Tamara Lanier who, following a six-year legal battle with Harvard University, won the ownership to images of her enslaved descendants.