Sixty-one years after the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till helped ignite the civil rights movement, cable television network HBO has begun...

Photographer Yunghi Kim has trained her lens on some of the world’s most notable events of the past three decades, including the raci...

The University of Missouri – roiled in the past year by racial tensions and protests – was central to a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on desegregat...

In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that...

The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...

Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...

President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to a...

This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....

America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart...

Faith healer? Fraud? Or both? The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...