HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

Henry Moxley arrived in Buffalo in 1832, the same year that Buffalo was incorporated as a city. He was a fugitive slave born in Virginia in 1808, the son of ...

Teachers’ Institutes were the early versions of today’s teacher in-service, conducted on a countywide scale. Held in the county courthouse in Doylestown, the institutes played an important role in pro ...

But education can—and increasingly does—happen anywhere. When states began to mandate education in the 1800s, travel and communication were difficult.

Mississippi has a rich history. The oldest schools in the state date back to the 1800s. What to know about public, private ...