AS THE story goes, The Backlash Blues by the great African-American poet Langston Hughes was penned at the request of singer ...

The Fort Myers Symphonic Mastersingers will premiere an extraordinary choral work titled “The Witness: Incidents of the War ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across ...

Manitowoc County Fenians backed Irish independence via Fenian circles, 1869 grand balls and Irish-American activism from 1848 ...

Hard as it may be to believe, it's been 20 years since Marvel Comics kicked off the Civil War crossover. That series is easily one of the biggest Marvel storylines ever, featuring such bombshell ...

Two Civil War cannons are usually displayed at the Rhode Island State House. The "Gettysburg Gun" has a cannonball still fused in its muzzle from the 1863 battle. The "Bull Run Gun" was recovered from ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. We’re one year in, and President Trump’s second term has already produced a parade of problematic historical ...

The Economist watched with alarm as America descended into civil war in 1861. That April militiamen from South Carolina, which had seceded, bombarded Fort Sumter, a Union stronghold just off the state ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said the American Revolution has been “sanitized,” calling the war “dark and bloody.” “I think we have sanitized the war. And I — I think it’s out of an understandable ...

More than 400 runners took to the streets of Lynchburg on Saturday morning for a St. Patrick’s Day-themed 5K. Rural representation takes the stage at anti-redistricting rally in Botetourt County ...

More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing scale, spectacle, the war film and national history. One of the boldest ...

“American Doctor” starts strongly with an emotional argument between filmmaker and protagonist. The latter pushes for showing the bodies of dead Palestinian children on screen, to convey the enormity ...