The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...
New books discuss the enslavement of others and its legacy of continuing generational damage, challenging what it means to be ...
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Just because a government’s constitution allows for dictatorship, that doesn’t mean that the dictator is therefore legitimate, moral, or that we must obey that ...
IT IS NO LESS THAN THIS IDEA OF AMERICA, this creed, this soul of America that we now see and feel slipping away. And yet, ...
After years of research and community engagement, the City School District will rename George Clinton Elementary, the Christopher Columbus office and Samuel Morse Elementary.
For several centuries, the United States was a slaveholding nation, until a civil war officially brought an end to the practice. Here’s a look back at this dark chapter in the country’s history.
Jeffrey Ramirez, 68, entered the plea by video Thursday and faces up to a year of incarceration at his sentencing, set in April.
Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day Franklin ...
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