In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.

Somewhere Toward Freedom” tells the story of Sherman’s March to the Sea from the perspective of the formerly enslaved.

On the site where The Embrace memorializes Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King once stood a social club that ...

Kristina Estle, director of the Underground Railroad Museum, wants area residents to remember and understand the cause that ...

Director Peter Berg, executive producer Eric Newman, Indigenous Consultant Julia O’Keefe, stars Taylor Kitsch, Betty Gilpin, ...

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, including, as one reenactor recites to me by heart, the Walker brothers, the ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

Following the second election of Donald Trump, I discovered that several of my acquaintances voted for the twice impeached ...

Several Memphis Grizzlies players have been introduced to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in different ways through their varied upbringings.

Historical fiction should not be a tool to justify modern biases or to create villains or heroes; it should challenge us to ...

Deportations, pardons and rollbacks of Biden actions — but advocacy groups pledge to file legal challenges to many of his ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert ...