Amid the political and social upheaval of the 1960s, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. drew directly and self-consciously on the declaration. In his 1963 “ I Have a Dream” speech, King defined an ...

Workers at General Motors occupied factories for 44 days in Flint, controlling irreplaceable auto body dies. Michigan’s ...

In addition to the 70-year anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Rosa Parks Museum is celebrating its 25th ...

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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. The envelope, please: After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, ...

In the London Olympics, Mo Farah carried the hopes and dreams of every Somali in Eastleigh, Kenya. But one refugee was ...

Firefly remains a beloved cult classic, but it is still a product of its time and its problematic creator, Joss Whedon.

The leading historian of conflict says the atrocities in Ukraine are rooted in a uniquely brutal mindset that can be traced ...

The ethnic milestones and makeup of the Supreme Court have long been topics of fascination, from the notion of a “Jewish seat ...

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-born novelist, feminist, and philanthropist whose books have sold over 80 million copies ...

The assault by the Trump administration on honest history is hitting everyone,” A. S. Dillingham, a tribal member of the ...

Iowa City, city of. Iowa State Constitution. The Iowa Constitution preamble is shown at the University of Iowa (U. of ...