The Milwaukee Forest Home Cemetery holds the bodies and stories of the city's Black pioneers, stories that Sara Wong wants to ...

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Upon Andrew Jackson’s inauguration as the seventh president of the United States in 1829, he owned 95 enslaved people and a sprawling plantation in Nashville named “The Hermitage.” Last week, the ...

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The county of Los Angeles has a new historical landmark: The grave of Owen Brown in Altadena. While the site was nominated on Feb. 27, and landmark status was approved by the county’s Historical ...

His father bid a tearful farewell, expressing heartbreak over not even having bought Tefillin for his son's Bar Mitzvah before having to buy a burial plot. "The goy who murdered him was not ...

Philip O’Sullivan has been remembered as ‘one of the kindest, soundest, and most genuine people one could ever meet' ...

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As the contributor of many of Food & Wine's comprehensive Best Of lists, designed to highlight and celebrate all aspects of American food and drink culture, David spent much of a typical year ...