June 18, 2024
To commemorate Juneteenth we are featuring Gordon Granger’s General Order No. 3. Issued on June 19, 1865, General Order No. 3 proclaimed that enslaved people in Texas were free. As… READ MORE
May 1, 2024
May 5 is National Cartoonist Day, and to celebrate we are highlighting a cartoon featured in Milestone Visual Documents in American History. This 3-volume reference set focuses on visual images… READ MORE
June 19, 2023
In the last half decade, the word intersectionality has gone viral. A legal term coined in 1989 by Columbia University Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, it remained in academic circles for much… READ MORE
March 9, 2022
We’re pleased to announce that The Schlager Anthology of Black America: A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources has been named as one of Library Journal‘s Best Reference Sources for… READ MORE
January 12, 2022
In advance of Black History Month in February, we wanted to highlight the content in our various primary document collections that can help students and researchers studying this fundamental aspect… READ MORE