The city of Philadelphia sued in January after the National Park Service removed the explanatory panels from Independence ...

During his short life, Lecomte was famed for his speed–he set records for both one-mile and four-mile heats, and for his ...

I don’t like erasures,” the novelist Toni Morrison told a Princeton audience in 2017. She had been asked what she thought about Confederate statues, then being torn down throughout the South. Leave ...

When I was growing up, we celebrated Washington’s Birthday, not Presidents Day. It was observed on Feb. 22, the day George Washington was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1732. I always ...

By Glenn Bramble Special to NKyTribune Kentucky held unique importance in the history of the Underground Railroad, especially as a border state, that is, a slaveholding state that did not secede from ...

The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is devoted to interpreting the life, literature and times of Thomas Wolfe using his mother’s boardinghouse, known as the “Old Kentucky Home” and his novel, “Look Homeward, ...

Do you believe in ghosts? Join us as we journey through America's most terrifying locations where spirits are said to still ...

Vincent Carter, 72, has lived his entire life in Gum Springs, Virginia. The town is within walking distance of George Washington’s Mount Vernon — an estate where Carter’s ancestors were enslaved — and ...

Margaret Garner's story, one of the most high-profile trials in Ohio history, reveals the desperate lengths a mother would go to protect her children from the horrors of slavery.

The University also objected to “affirmative action and women.” ...

Liverpool’s waterfront reads like a record of America’s rise. Tobacco from Virginia passed through its warehouses, passenger liners sailed regularly to New York and the ... Read moreThe post Liverpool ...