Nearly a century ago, the historian Carter G. Woodson started a movement to teach Black history in America’s schools. First called Negro History Week and now Black History Month, it has been an oasis ...

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If you’re looking for a way to celebrate Black History Month with the kids in your life, reading books that lift up Black voices is a great place to start. But February is a short month, and it ...

The purpose of this book. The study of provenance. Problems of provenance research --Inscriptions, mottoes & other manuscript additions: Inscriptions in books. Mottoes. Manuscript bookplates and ...

Yep, this one’s a classic, and it’s well worth the read. In this epic book, Isabel Wilkerson traces the migration of 6 million African Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, ...

Understanding the past "gives us perspective" on current events, said GQ. "And right now, we sorely need perspective." With "war raging in Europe" and Donald Trump causing chaos across the pond, it's ...

Mark Twain. Harriet Beecher Stowe. William Shakespeare. These names share something more than a legacy of classic literature and a place on school curriculums: They’re just some of the many authors ...