My grandparents were murdered during the Osage Reign of Terror. It took my family generations to recover.
“I will leave this house only if I am dead,” the prominent New York doctor told his ex-wife, who was seeking half the value of their Manhattan townhouse in a divorce.
The award-winning photojournalist broke gender barriers and was the first American female reporter killed in combat in Vietnam.
Muir struggled for decades to create and protect Yosemite National Park, and helped launch the American environmental movement.
Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.
The author, who once served under General Patton and whose father, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was Patton's commanding officer, shares his memories of "Ol' Blood and Guts"
First of the Three Parts from STILWELL THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CHINA 1911-1945
Incriminating new evidence has come to light in KGB files and the authors' interviews of former Cuban intelligence officers that indicates Fidel Castro probably knew in advance of Oswald's intent to kill JFK.
To call it loaded question does not begin to do justice to the matter, given America’s tortured racial history and its haunting legacy.
Four hundred years ago this year, two momentous events happened in Britain’s fledgling colony in Virginia: the New World’s first democratic assembly convened, and an English privateer brought kidnapped Africans to sell as slaves. Such were the conflicted origins of modern America.
The noted writer and educator tells of his boyhood in the West Virginia town of Piedmont, where African Americans were second-class citizens but family pride ran deep.