One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

Editor's note: Palm Beach County leads every county east of the Mississippi in agricultural sales, according to the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension. It leads the nation in production of ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world leader we know as Pope Francis — is a story finally told in his own words. But ...

Pioneer of disaster medicine tells an inspiring American story — and a powerful counter to fearful MAGA nonsense ...

In “What Fell From the Sky,” by Adrianna Cuevas, and “Oasis,” by Guojing, the best examples of humanity aren’t necessarily human.

New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch mingle hidden history with nail-biting detective work in their ...

I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...

WESTERLY, R.I. (WJAR) — A 98-year-old World War II Navy veteran can check off another life achievement-- publishing a book.

Vladimir Putin’s shameless invasion of Ukraine has blown up far more than cities and villages. It has exploded millions of ...

The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to ...