Did the gains of the 1960s finally bring about the racial justice that Martin Luther King, Jr. famously dreamed of? Now that our history series has come to...

A photographic history of the Civil War and emancipation, followed by the years of segregation. Part of a series exploring the importance of photographs in...

Discover the history of Africans in the United States through photographs from public archives, starting with a history of slavery in America.

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Learn how the fascinating technique of photography was created and about the early days of the medium in this short article.

Take a closer look at a photo from 1894 showing Frederick Douglass and his grandson, Joseph Douglass, from the National Museum of African American History...

Then and now pictures are not only fun to look at to see how an area has changed, they’re also a great way to connect to, and better understand, our history....

In 1992, Mission Specialist Mae Jemison flew into space aboard the Endeavour, becoming the first African-American woman in space: here's a great picture of her.

Let's go west with Dorothea Lange's crucial depictions of a region in crisis during the 1930's.

A practical process was available for color photography by the 1930s, but it took decades for color images to be fully accepted by newspapers and the fine...

The story of women in photography is still a work in progress. It’s not a fairy tale but it’s also not a tragedy. In celebration of International Women’s...

It's important to include metadata when you're managing photos. It means you can easily search for and find them as your archive grows and it means that you...