Bryan Greene

The Presidents’ Day holiday weekend is almost here. My latest in Smithsonian Magazine reminds us how many who served as President seldom took a break—even outside their time in the White House.  smithsonianmag.com/history/one-wa…

Before Loving, there was the Rhinelander case. The Rhinelanders married 100 years ago. Then, Leonard sued Alice saying she tricked him into believing she was white. The nation was riveted. My Smithsonian story. smithsonianmag.com/history/how-an…

On this day, 150 years ago, Patrick Healy, born enslaved in Georgia, became Georgetown University’s most consequential president. My 2020 article on his unique family. smithsonianmag.com/history/born-e…

@Noahpinion So many Americans are clueless. Look at African-Americans. The majority have white ancestors, often enslavers or others who, after slavery, exploited black women or took them as common-law wives.

Right-wingers have apparently not read Kindred, by Octavia Butler. A book everyone should read.

If you are near DC, Thursday, May 30, come see me and my friend Steven Nelson discuss The Life and Times f Hannah Crafts!

"Finding Hannah Crafts: America's First Black Woman Novelist" with Gregg Hecimovich in conversation with Steven Nelson. Learn about Hecimovich's meticulous research and uncover the identity of Hannah Crafts. 📅 Thurs. May 30, 6:30 pm at MLK Library RSVP bit.ly/3UWzE4y

Check out my story in today’s Washington Post. I brought together two families, each legendary in their own right, to investigate whether they are genetically related. washingtonpost.com/history/2024/0…

@EricIdle Sad this is not a valid word for Word Trip. They’ve updated the @OED for less! Acceptable anagrams: rustle, luster, & results!

@whatchidid You need a thin film, about 12” long, that you can slip under the small bowl and up the other side so you can hold both ends and literally pull the bowls apart.

Twitter, I need your help. I stacked a ceramic bowl into another one while doing dishes and now they are stuck. How do you remove the smaller bowl without breaking both of them? Why am I so invested? I’ve tried to fix this for 2 days, and I cannot give up now.

Did you know that the record label that introduced the Beatles to America, putting out their first single and first album, was an African-American company from Chicago’s South Side? Here’s my Black History Month contribution to Smithsonian Magazine. smithsonianmag.com/history/the-bl…

My latest in Smithsonian Magazine. Happy Halloween! smithsonianmag.com/history/for-ha…

75 years ago, black servicemembers returned from WWII demanding the same freedoms at home that they had fought for abroad. Here, I recount the violence they endured "that terrible summer of 1946," in launching the civil rights movement. smithsonianmag.com/history/summer…

James McCune Smith was the first African-American to earn a medical degree. A radical abolitionist alongside Frederick Douglass and John Brown, he was a leading 19th-century intellectual. I unearth his legacy in Smithsonian Magazine. smithsonianmag.com/history/james-…

Proud to have served as a consulting producer on this movie.

Honored Smithsonian Magazine voted my story on the Georgetown President born enslaved who passed as white one of their favorites of 2020. smithsonianmag.com/history/twenty…

“Thrilling accounts of [Jenny] Lind’s American concert tour” coincided with “the national debate over slavery which was polarizing America” in 1850, writes @greenebee in @SmithsonianMag. smithsonianmag.com/history/jenny-…

My latest in the Smithsonian. Americans demanded international superstar Jenny Lind take a side on slavery when she toured the US in 1850. Today marks the Swedish soprano's 200th birthday. disq.us/t/3s3609s

My latest: Georgetown, built by enslaved labor and rescued from collapse by the sale of human beings, became a world-class university under the leadership of a formerly-enslaved man whom the Jesuits helped “pass” as white. smithsonianmag.com/history/born-e…

My latest in SmithsonianMag.com. The Justice Department, when it was founded 150 years ago today, made its first mission protecting black voting rights. A former Confederate led the charge. smithsonianmag.com/history/create…

You: Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? Me: Yes, head uptown! My latest in Smithsonian Magazine smithsonianmag.com/history/unmist…