CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- “Ever heard of Ted Rhodes? There he is, right before Condoleezza Rice.” Harvard historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is paging through the index to the eight-volume African ...

History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his ...

Renowned African-American writers Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham discuss their latest joint project, 'The African-American National Biography'. "The African American National ...

Stagecoach Mary Fields was a gun-toting, hard drinking, cigar smoking frontierswoman who gambled, brawled and reputedly even killed a man. Well into her 60s, she dependably steered her coach through ...