Augusta University U.S. History since 1877

03/08/2022

Passage of the legislation to make lynching a federal crime is a major milestone after more than 200 attempts to pass such legislation failed over the course of a century.

02/26/2022

Duck and Cover staring Bert the Turtle is a 1951 Civil Defense FilmWritten by Raymond J. Mauer and directed by Anthony Rizzo of Archer Productions and made w...

02/15/2022

10/26/2021

Months before Rosa Parks became the mother of the modern civil rights movement by refusing to move to the back of a segregated Alabama bus, Black teenager Claudette Colvin did the same.

10/14/2021

The statue will be the first to honor a Black person in the U.S. Capitol Building's National Statuary Hall.

10/10/2021

The shift comes as the Biden administration pressures Native tribes in Oklahoma to desegregate their constitutions to comply with treaty obligations.

09/21/2021

New exhibition and book feature more than 100 images captured by Edward Sherriff Curtis for his seminal chronicle of Native American life

09/16/2021

The federal government is continuing to decide how it will rename bases across the U.S. named after Confederate service members, a mandate included in the defense bill approved by Congress in January.

08/18/2021

It took until 2021 to remove these policies in Colorado?!?

After the policy was implemented, the U.S. Army slaughtered Cheyenne and Arapaho people in the Sand Creek Massacre.

07/29/2021

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Fred Ware and his son were researching the history of the home he's owned in the Hartford suburbs since 1950 when they discovered something far uglier than they expected. Tucked in a list of rules on the home's original deed from the developer was a provision that said: “N...

07/23/2021

These techniques are resurfacing in local fire management collaborations between tribes, U.S. Forest Service and non-governmental organizations to help prevent now-common calamities.

07/19/2021

Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.