What's New
The latest features and additions to HistorianSpeaks.
October 2026
A new look for the Black History Map
The map page opens with a full-color collage of events from around the world: the March on Washington, the Greensboro sit-ins, the Haitian Revolution, the Empire Windrush arriving in Britain, Angolan independence and the 1888 end of slavery in Brazil.
Open the map →October 2026
New artwork across the site
The timeline now opens with a painting of the global Black experience, from the Nile Valley and Mali to Haiti, Brazil, Europe and the civil rights movement. The blog has a new collage with Harriet Tubman, Toussaint Louverture, Zora Neale Hurston, Nelson Mandela and Angela Davis.
See the timeline →October 2026
About Us photo gallery
The About Us page now features portraits of Sojourner Truth, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, Ella Baker, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
Visit About Us →October 2026
More museums in the Mid-Atlantic
New listings include the National Great Blacks In Wax Museum, the Louis Armstrong House, the Paul Robeson House, Mother Bethel's Richard Allen Museum, The Colored Girls Museum, the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum, the Josiah Henson Museum, the Mitchell Center for African American Heritage and the National Museum of African Art.
Browse the museums →October 2026
New: Museums of the Black Experience
A guide to more than 100 museums, memorials and historic sites, covering African American history across the United States and the Black experience around the world. Names in other languages include English translations.
Browse the museums →October 2026
New paintings on the timeline
Original paintings now illustrate the Bornu Empire, the Kingdom of Kongo, the Oyo, Mutapa, Dahomey and Ashanti empires, the Siddis of India, Black Tudor England, Africans in Medieval Europe, the Central Sahel and Nile kingdoms and more.
See the timeline →September 2026
Jefferson, Hemings and the new DNA evidence
Our timeline entry on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings now includes Annette Gordon-Reed's scholarship and the Smithsonian's new genome study of Jefferson's hair.
Read the entry →September 2026
Reconstruction and beyond: nine new entries
New and expanded entries on the Freedman's Savings Bank, the Buffalo Soldiers, the Colored National Labor Union, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the Colfax Massacre, the Colored Farmers' Alliance, the American Negro Academy, the Niagara Movement and Oscar De Priest.
Explore the timeline →September 2026
New: Interactive Black History Map
Every timeline entry, now more than 250, is pinned to a place on a world map. Filter by historical period and click any pin to read more.
Open the map →September 2026
New: Global Black History Timeline
A timeline running from ancient Africa to today, covering Africa and the Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin American, European, Indian Ocean and US Black experiences.
Start the timeline →