Over the past several years, one man’s diligent labor of love slowly created a repository of notables, past and present, from the LGBTQ community of color. This online historical resource, the Ubuntu ...

History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his ...

Stagecoach Mary Fields was a gun-toting, hard drinking, cigar smoking frontierswoman who gambled, brawled and reputedly even killed a man. Well into her 60s, she dependably steered her coach through ...