Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Though agriculture can be historically traumatic for many Black families, these homesteaders have found personal liberation by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paintings by Barbara Gothard displayed at the Victor Valley Museum in Apple Valley represent 23 Black homesteaders who lived in ...

Economist Edwards and historian Friefeld (coauthors, Homesteading the Plains) deliver a meticulously researched account of Black homesteading on the Great Plains in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Some had been born into slavery. Most hailed from southern states that had fought on the side of the Confederacy. At least one man had served in the Union Army. The most common tie, though, among the ...

In 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, Congress enacted one of the most far-reaching pieces of legislation in American history. The Homestead Act’s sponsor, Rep. Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania, ...

When you hear the phrase "Go West, young man," you might picture white settlers, cowboys, and gold miners driven by the doctrine of white Manifest Destiny. But before the Great Migration of the 20th ...

The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State Library will celebrate Black History Month with a virtual presentation featuring New Orleans native Bernice Alexander Bennett, author of "Black ...

A lake and a wetland in Washington state are soon to have new names in honor of two early Black settlers on the Kitsap Peninsula. A 10.5-acre acre lake near Tahuya, Wash. will soon be called ...

Barbara Gothard — an artist whose work depicts the plight of 23 African American homesteaders during the early 20th century — will deliver a talk this week at the Victor Valley Museum. Gothard’s ...