Maryland may have been a Union state, but before the Civil War, it certainly had a number of plantations whose owners bought ...

Feb. 25, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Walter White — arguably the most influential Black man in mid-century America ...

The lawsuit, filed by Republican led states, is one of several legal challenges to the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act rules.

Lafayette’s Bicentennial Farewell Tour will end in June when, just as he did during his tour 200 years ago, he heads into ...

Ronald Reagan (Captain) — Reagan breaks our string of Navy officers, as he joined the Army Reserve in April 1937. He was ...

George Armitage, who co-wrote and directed the Alec Baldwin-starring Miami Blues and helmed another 1990s black comedy, ...

In 1782, as the Revolutionary War was winding down and peace talks were happening in Paris, Gen. George Washington came up ...

Short of the Civil War, it’s hard to imagine a constitutional crisis more dangerous than what we’re in for if President ...

On July 4, 1776, the hallowed Founding Fathers declared America’s independence. However, the only beneficiaries were white ...

As a young nation, Americans drank far more than they do today, starting in the morning with an “eye opener” and finishing the day with a “nightcap.” ...

Remembering The Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi”, by Joe Bateman and Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, (The University of Georgia Press: Athens), 280 pages, ...