RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Valentine Museum’s Richmond History Makers Award honors and celebrates the unsung work of individuals and organizations who strive to improve their communities. One of this ...

Sojourner Truth, the African American abolitionist, women's rights advocate and social activist revered to this day for her presentation on racial inequalities, delivered her famous "Ain't I a Woman?" ...

History textbooks often present the past as a neat timeline of wars, discoveries, and political changes. But hidden between these major events are countless bizarre, shocking, and downright ...

More than 80 years after the Holocaust, historical truth is under threat as never before. A lack of knowledge, ignorance, and denial intersect with an algorithmically amplified post-truth culture ...

Many students of history ask, “What is a practical application of history?” Unfortunately, there is no simple answer because history is not simply a recording of facts and events; nor is it merely a ...

Boris Lurie, "In Concentration Camp" (1971), oil on canvas, 50 1⁄4 x 49 1⁄4 inches (all images courtesy the Boris Lurie Art Foundation) Born in St. Petersburg in 1924, Boris Lurie grew up in Latvia.

National Guard troops block off Beale Street as civil rights marchers wearing placards reading, “I Am a Man” pass by on March 29, 1968. (Bettmann / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you ...

MOGILEV, 5 July (BelTA) – It is better to fight for historical truth under a peaceful bright sky than to go to war, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko said at the inauguration ceremony for the ...

Lawrence S. Bacow is president of Harvard University. Tomiko Brown-Nagin is chair of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. In ...