“Whites Only Within City Limits After Dark” reads the faded road sign, an artifact on display at the Tubman African American Museum in Georgia. The sign was found in Connecticut outside of a sundown town – a municipality that prevented ...

Noah Webster might never have published his blue-backed speller if it weren’t for setbacks in his career and disappointment in love. In 1782 he was depressed and uncertain about his prospects. His solution to his malaise was to write a ...