A research-grade archive covering Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Movement, Black economic history, voting rights, military service, land ownership, and the court cases that shaped them.
The Haitian Revolution is one of the greatest freedom struggles in world history and deserves permanent reverence. It also did not free Foundational Black Americans — whose documented resistance in North America began in 1526 and ran through every American war that followed.
From Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre to the USCT that saved the Union, from jazz and rock and roll to open-heart surgery, the traffic light, and the blood bank — a sourced record of how Foundational Black Americans built the country.
The Confederate States of America was defeated in 1865. No other nation builds monuments to the enemies who tried to destroy it. So why does the American landscape still celebrate Confederate leaders? The answer is not heritage — it is white supremacy.
How a twelve-year experiment in multiracial democracy was dismantled — and what its unfinished work means for descendants today.
What was promised to Freedmen after emancipation, what was delivered, what was reversed — and why the reparations debate continues to trace back to 1865.
Six million people. Sixty years. A demographic shift that rewrote American cities — and American capital.