Happy New Year! Last year, I didn’t do such a great job posting on the blog or on social media. This year, I plan to do better. In 2022, we […]
Meet The Judges: Derrick Holmes
For Derrick Holmes, history is part of everything he does. In 2003, he founded what’s believed to be the only Black-owned watch and clock company, Banneker, Inc., which he named […]
Meet The Judges: Charity Nebbe
Charity Nebbe is a natural at putting people at ease. Whether they’re a guest on “Talk of Iowa” or a stranger on the street, there’s something about Charity that gets […]
Middle Schoolers Win Hip History Contest With A Play About Equality In Buxton, Iowa
Aliyah, Payton, Adeline, Tyce, and Kristopher wrote plays and performed them for their sixth grade classmates all year. So when they heard about the Hip History Contest and a chance […]
Vote Today and Help a Student Win
Today is the last day to enter Uniting Through History‘s Hip History Contest and the first day to help a student win a $50 Amazon gift card. Simply visit the […]
A Great First History Book Club Meeting
Uniting Through History kicked off the History Book Club with a lively discussion of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by […]
Hip History Contest is Live!
Please share and help spread the word—Uniting Through History’s Hip History Contest is live! We’re inviting all middle and high school students to submit their creative and educational interpretations of […]
Why Uniting Through History Is Important
My first memory of learning about “Black history” in school was a lesson on slavery in the fourth grade. It was the mid-1970s and I was sitting in a classroom […]