This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...

Above and beyond publishing journal articles, credentialing young people and producing spectacles on the court, the field and the gridiron, the job of a university is to keep the books. Less visible ...

This piece explores what everyday life looked like at the end of the 19th century. The 1890s were a turning point between two eras. Many communities still relied on familiar traditions from earlier ...

When you hear the word social media, you probably imagine someone hunched over their phone, not a 19th century farmer tallying how much hay they baled. However, Prof. Lee Humphreys, communication, ...

The American frontier : simple stereotype, complex reality -- Life on the fur frontier -- Life on the explorers' frontier -- Life on the miners' frontier : the new Eldorado -- Life on the land : Alien ...