Benjamin Banneker, the Black Authority that Shaped DC

Benjamin Banneker, the Black Authority that Shaped DC

The nation spoke in the lan­guage of lib­er­ty, but it had been built to deny lib­er­ty. It praised rea­son, but it fenced rea­son off by race. Yet here was a self-taught Black astronomer doing pre­cise fed­er­al work for the cap­i­tal of the Unit­ed States.

Mayan Mathematics

Mayan Mathematics

The Maya civ­i­liza­tion thrived in what is now south­east­ern Mex­i­co, all of Guatemala and Belize, and parts of Hon­duras and El Salvador.