Black and white photograph of Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?

Matthew Wills
...a surprise to Americans that Canadians, too, claim Tubman as a national hero. The “North Star” of freedom had been a haven for escaped slaves and free blacks since the...
By Unknown; distributed by Epoch Film Co. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“Birth of a Nation”: 100 Years Later

Erin Blakemore
...as they pass a bill permitting the intermarriage of blacks and whites. We can’t hear what’s going on—The Birth of a Nation is a silent film—but the scene is identified...
Illustration of Columbus on his knee, planing a flag in the New World with his men and ships looking on

What If the World Were Flat and Columbus Had Fallen Off the Edge of the Earth?

Greg Rosalsky
...fortune” in the wake of Columbus’s arrival: Central and South America went from being the relatively richer region to being the relatively poorer one. The reason? The North was given...