The Highlander Research and Education Center is "the most notable American experiment in adult education for social change." One of its buildings recently burned down.

After Emancipation, some Southern Protestants refused to revise their proslavery views. In their minds, slavery had been divinely sanctioned.

How the Memphis Sanitation Strike, with its iconic “I AM A MAN” signs, helped deepen Martin Luther King, Jr.'s radicalism in the last months of his life.

With warnings that a shortage of the vaccine against the virus could spur on a new epidemic, yellow fever is again in the scientific spotlight.

Ethnicity and job occupation are but a few factors in tracing the political leanings of your ancestors.

The mythos of the The Lost Cause of the Confederacy.

An interview with scholar William P. Jones on labor unions, public employees, and race.