“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

Explore Oak Ridge and Atomic Hope Heritage Preservation & Tourism Co. invite the public to attend the official unveiling of the Elijah Wood Civil War Trails Marker at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 12, at ...

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 ...

"Dave the Potter" labored in the alkaline-glazed stoneware potteries of Edgefield, S.C., in the decades before and during the ...

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...

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 ...

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, ...

The subject of memory also energizes most of the books we chose this year. Several works look back vividly and honestly on ...

RIGHT HERE ON KMBC NINE. THIS MONTH MARKS 60 YEARS SINCE A LANDMARK MOMENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY. IT WAS IN JULY 1964 THAT PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON SIGNED THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, BANNING DISCRIMINATION IN ...

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

Though many of us with diaries of our own pray they never meet the light of day, some go on to become indispensable historic ...