Pluto's discovery by Clyde Tombaugh, key political changes in Scandinavia and America, plus cultural and scientific milestones.
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 ...
When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day. It was observed on Feb. 22, the day George ...
Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.
Last month, Democrats in Virginia introduced several bills aimed at dismantling, defunding, and investigating the Virginia Military Institute. The school — a source of some of the greatest military ...
In 1564, artist Michelangelo died in Rome at age 88.
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Hate or heritage: The dangerous distractions of Confederate nostalgia

Confederate nostalgia, expressed through monument preservation, the “Lost Cause” narrative, and the pervasive display of the battle flag, is rarely just about a simple affection for history. While ...
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 ...