Johns Hopkins University heralded its founder's abolitionism for nearly a century, but a reexamination of the school's history recently revealed that Johns Hopkins actually owned several slaves.

When Kobi Little was an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, he was curious to learn what events the school had planned to commemorate Black History Month. The possible subjects, he says, wer… ...

Johns Hopkins University, founded after the Civil War by a supposedly antislavery benefactor, might seem to have largely sidestepped that reckoning, even as it increasingly acknowledged how the ...

Johns Hopkins alum Caleb McDaniel has won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for his recounting of the story of Henrietta Wood, who was freed from slavery in 1848 only to be kidnapped in 1853 by her ...

Among the worst of those offenders is Johns Hopkins University. Isaiah Bowman , the university’s president from 1935 to 1948, is commemorated on campus both by a memorial bust and a nearby road ...

Johns Hopkins left home at 17 and moved to Baltimore to work for his uncle in the wholesale grocery business. The philanthropist is best known for the work he did after leaving Gambrills.

When the clinic at Johns Hopkins closed, others around the country began to shutter too. While there were 20 similar clinics in 1979, only two or three were still operating by the mid-1990s ...