Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition of salvery. Even strong Unionists generally supported ...

Long before he became a Congressman from Massachusetts, Barney Frank volunteered for the Freedom Summer project in 1964. As a teenager in New Jersey, Frank had been deeply affected by the murder of ...

Named after his grandfather, the Civil War hero William Alexander "Gray Eagle" Percy, Will Percy also served in the Army with ...

Those who fought in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir call themselves the “Chosin Few." Explore their portraits and stories.

The school day opens with prayer at private school at the Farm Bureau building. Pie Town, New Mexico, June 1940. Library of Congress. Steven Engel was a parent in New Hyde Park, New York. He and a ...

Mamie Till's decision to hold an open-casket funeral would make her son's death a touchstone for a generation.

Hard Hat Riot repasa los eventos de Nueva York en 1970, cuando los estudiantes que protestaban contra la guerra de Vietnam se ...