Despite being fictional, The Gilded Age is deeply informed by history. The series highlights several real historical events. Many of its characters are inspired by real people. Well-known figures like ...

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

Asian Americans are “Asian.” But for any number of reasons, it’s hard to imagine a great many Black Americans opting to call ...

The mocking of immigrant detainees harks back to “the worst parts of our history” when similar jokes and tropes, such as ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the ...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast as an aristocratic matriarch. In an interview, she, Audra McDonald and Denée Benton ...

African American leaders fought for integration rather than the development of separate Black institutions in the 19th century. The city's first permanent African American newspaper, the CLEVELAND ...

A developer is aiming to convert mixed retail and residential premises in Chesterfield into a house in multiple occupation.

Vague phrasing in the state’s Revolutionary-era Constitution enfranchised women who met specific property requirements. A ...

The "Circle of Chains" memorial by Steven Whyte, powerfully honors the enslaved individuals who contributed to the state's ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

If you think moving is hard today, a century ago, Chicago tenants faced price-gouging, extortion and havoc in the streets every May 1.