Skip to main content

EXPLORE Forgotten Genius

Against all odds, African-American chemist Percy Julian became one of the great scientists of the 20th century. Learn how his work with steroids and alkaloids led to treatments for glaucoma and rheumatoid arthritis, see the chemical structure of steroids, and listen to interviews from those who worked with him.

EXPLORE other NEH-funded projects

Alexander Hamilton, portrait by John Trumbull, 1806
Alexander Hamilton
Cultural Revolution poster
Children & Youth in History
The War
The War
Portraits of Daniel Shays and Job Shattuck, leaders of the "Regulators," 1787
Shays' Rebellion & the Making of a Nation
Walt Whitman, illustration from Leaves of Grass
The Walt Whitman Archive
The 1968 Project
The 1968 Project
Albrecht Dürer woodcut, “Rhinoceros”
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
W.E.B. Du Bois, c. 1911
Credo