Harold Kenneth "H.K." Edgerton, a former president of the Asheville-Buncombe NAACP who became nationally-known for this ...

The trio formerly known as the Dixie Chicks — now just the Chicks — say in a newly published interview with the New York ...

Longfellow's son, Charley, went on to become a world traveler and author after his brief career as a soldier. (NPS) Charles Appleton Longfellow was the oldest child of American poet and writer Henry ...

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War officially ended exactly 160 years ago, with the last shot fired June 22, 1865.

In 1993, The Walt Disney Company announced a plan to build a new kind of theme park that wouldn’t take visitors to space, under the sea, or into fairy tales, but into the nation’s dark and troubled ...

The Confederate rifle was a revolutionary weapon in the American Civil War. Its design, range, and accuracy changed battlefield strategies and gave Southern forces new tactical advantages. Experts ...

It is a warm day in Paris in the mid-1930s. In a crowded sidewalk cafe, a group of foreign correspondents gathered. In their ranks is William L. Shirer, former newspaper reporter and recently named by ...

“The fabric of what binds America together at this point is basically on its final thread,” one source tells WIRED. It’s impossible to look around and not wonder whether the US is teetering on the ...

The Civil War ripped apart nearly every bond Americans shared — classmates, friends, even family members found themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. One of the most unique feuds came in the ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman produced Civil War epic The Gray House has landed with Prime Video in the U.S. The streamer has snapped up the limited series, which is about a network of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - It’s a story that’s modern chapter is 18 years in the making, but the entire tale dates back to 1865. Twenty-two Black soldiers were attacked and killed by Confederate ...

The answer is no. These Critical Questions use core findings from the academic literature on civil wars and political violence to situate recent tragic events and fundamentally challenge the notion ...