Hilary Mac Austin and Kathleen Thompson began working together in the late 1990s, when Kathleen was associate editor of Facts on File's Encyclopedia of Black Women. The editor of that multi-volume encyclopedia for young adults, Darlene Clark Hine, and Kathleen collaborated on the first narrative history of black women in America, A Shining Thread of Hope, published by Broadway Books. Mac was the photographic editor for the book. Out of that collaboration came The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present, which led to two other books of historical images and a deep interest in and commitment to diversity in American history.
We founded OneHistory in 2001 and incorporated in 2003. Since then, we have worked to develop this website and have done presentations at schools and colleges around the country, focusing especially on the visual perception of American history.
Here are links to information about our books.
Hilary Mac Austin, Lavinia Prescott Ferguson, and Kathleen Thompson doing research at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Chicago
The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present
America's Children: Repicturing America from Exploration to the Present
