Black History Month began as merely a week back in 1926 thanks to the efforts of one man: Carter G. Woodson. A scholar and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Have you ever wondered about the remarkable events and figures that have shaped our world? While you might be familiar with some ...

What happens when one of the certainties in the classroom turns out to be costume design, bad mathematics or a judicial system that is constructed to listen to ghosts? The most enduring “facts” in ...

When we think of the past, we tend to imagine a series of logical events leading to the modern world, but the timeline is actually littered with moments of pure absurdity. There are certain historical ...

Since 1976, February has been officially known as Black History Month – a time to remember our struggle and celebrate all the amazing contributions Black people have made to everything from science to ...

2. In 1137, a 14-year-old girl named Eleanor became the "greatest heiress in the known world." She was, in her own right, the Duchess of Aquitaine and ruled it independently through her two marriages.

Historian and author Carter G. Woodson is known by many as the “Father of Black History.” Tired of having Black people left out of the American story, he created the first Negro History Week in ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - It is the fourth day of Black History Month and we have the Black history fact of the day. February 4, 1913 Rosa Parks was born. Parks was a Civil Rights Activist best known for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a history lover, I know that no matter who you are or what period of history might be your favorite, there will always be more ...

President's Day is coming up, and Jen and Jenyne are playing "fact or fiction?" with questions about Baltimore's role in the Executive's Office with historian Raffi Andonian.