Dr. Carla Hayden, a trailblazing librarian of Congress, was fired by President Trump in May. Geoff Bennett recently spoke with her about being blindsided by the decision, the administration’s ongoing ...

California’s court fight to reign in the president's use of troops in Los Angeles now hangs on a 19th century law with grim ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been convicted of prostitution-related offenses under the federal Mann Act, an anti-sex trafficking ...

Uniting more than 200 sites across eastern Kansas and western Missouri, Freedom's Frontier preserves the story of the border ...

These private sessions are recorded in Moynihan’s London journals, housed today at the Library of Congress. The journals contain graphic ... First was the history of slavery. Scholar Stanley Elkins, ...

When possible, she includes descriptions of the homes from the enslaved African-Americans who lived in them. A slave house in Prince William County, Virginia, in 1959. Library of Congress ...

TOPEKA, Kansas — Freedom’s Frontier, a coalition of more than 200 historically significant sites on both sides of the Kansas-Missouri border, will “cease to exist” if Congress approves proposed ...

The French engineer Gustave Eiffel’s plan sketch was found to have been changed to help the statue withstand weather like ...

Historically as well as contemporarily, immigration has been a key and extremely polarizing issue in American political ...

Morven, 55 Stockton Street, will hold its annual Independence Day festivities on Friday, July 4, from 12 to 3 p.m. For this ...