What Accountability Looks Like The overnight news brings fresh evidence that America is exceptional among developed nations ...

Abraham Lincoln, America's 16th President, steered the nation through the Civil War, dismantling slavery and preserving the ...

Alabama Gov. George Wallace was an infamous figure in American politics, even inspiring a lyric in Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet ...

America was a house divided over slavery 165 Februarys ago on George Washington’s birthday. On that day, Feb. 22, 1861, in Louisville, two of the city’s most famous newspaper editors climbed on the ...

Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.

Many of these men, once bound in slavery, were also being documented for the first time, impacting generations to come.

In August 1861, the quiet town of Athens, Missouri, faced a Confederate assault, but eventually, the battle spilled over into ...

In 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome at age 88.

Confederate nostalgia, expressed through monument preservation, the “Lost Cause” narrative, and the pervasive display of the ...

The series opens March 5 with Wiliam Paca’s Annapolis House in Annapolis, Md. Historian Glenn Campbell will talk about Paca, the third governor of Maryland and one of four from that state who signed ...

This week marks 161 years since Union and Confederate troops met in The Battle of Fort Myers.It was one of the 10,000 places where the Civil War was fought, to paraphrase the opening narration in Ken ...