Historical Figures

Is Mrs. Obama really the first black First Lady? Which US bill features a black man? You’ll be surprised at the historical figures you didn’t know were black.

Is Mrs. Obama really the first black First Lady? Which US bill features a black man? You’ll be surprised at the historical figures you didn’t know were black.

I started the account to satisfy my own curiosity about what members of the past would look like if they were standing right in front of me

Thinking about historical figures often conjures up images of wizened old men and women staring gravely out of sepia photographs. Many of our famous historical people achieved notoriety later in their lives, so we often only know their faces in their older age. For example, most only see the face of Joseph Stalin as a ...

Discover a list of 28 names of 20th-century people who were essential factors in the cause, duration, and aftermath of World War 1.

Tubman was unflinching in her commitment to liberation and would use the power of her pistol if necessary

Vince Pankoke and his team will use new techniques to analyse large amounts of data to solve mystery of diarist’s capture

During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary War veterans still alive. They had fought as teenagers and lived a century or more, into the age of photography. So Hillard traveled to their homes, nearly all west of their birthplaces, interviewed […]

Artist Bas Uterwijk, from Amsterdam, uses a sophisticated AI software that recognises common facial features to make realistic photo-style portraits of famous figures.

Historical Figures You Didn’t Know Were Black