Staten Island Graveyard
Benjamin Prine was buried in an African American cemetery in 1900. Fifty years later, he was buried again when the cemetery was paved over for a shopping mall.
Today in History
Today in History features stories that probe the past and investigate the present to better understand the roots and rise of hate.
Today in History: In Memory and Hope
Five Years Later: Rebuilding the Tree of Life Synagogue
Today in History: Changing the Face of America
What happened after President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the end of discrimination in U.S. immigration policy?
Salvation and Alliance
A little-known lesson in solidarity: Jewish refugee professors fleeing the Nazis were shunned by U.S. antisemitism but welcomed by America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
Tailyr Irvine is a Salish and Kootenai journalist born and raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana.
Until You Are Remembered
While most people have never heard of Felix Longoria, he played a critical role in transforming nearly every aspect of American life.
Against Mind and Heart
One day in 1943, the truth collided with a very human failing: our inability to believe those facts which are too awful to bear.
Black History Month
For Black History Month, The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister and Public Theologian at Middle Church in NYC, on the meaning of Ubuntu.
Protecting Democracy
Two years after January 6, an insightful Q&A about protecting democracy with former DHS senior intelligence analyst, Daryl Johnson.
Ben Ferencz: Never Give Up
Ben Ferencz is the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor. Now 103, he remains as committed as ever to his motto: "Law. Not War."
Coming to America
Editor's Note: The new PBS documentary series, The US and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Journalist Daniella Greenbaum Davis is not yet 30 years old, but the questions raised…
Expelled from Spain: July 31, 1492
Recalling the pivotal events of 1492 in Spain compels us to recognize the complexity of patterns of hate and the urgency of addressing them.