These trees were essential to the enslaved people’s labor, yet they also provided refuge and a path to escape,” Jones said.

Geographic assignment forces American families to “pay” for access to local public schools via their mortgages.

Edna Griffin led one of the nation's first successful civil rights cases in 1948, challenging segregation at Katz Drug Store ...

Today’s updates to the cartographic world view respond to treaties and armistices, but most importantly, they represent ...

Benjamin and Amy Butts lived in the Johnson Street house between 1892 and 1907, hosting UW-Madison Black students and other ...