Napoleon Jones-Henderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1943, to Minnie Maxine Washington and Woodrow Lewis Henderson.

In the slaveholding South, ancient Egypt and its pharaohs became a way to justify slavery. For abolitionists and African Americans, biblical Egypt served as a symbol of bondage and liberation.

Hell’s Kitchen is about to lose one of its most stubbornly old-school dining rooms. Chez Napoléon — the tinyFrench restaurant ...

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld using probabilistic genotyping software program for DNA evidence in a ...

In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, one of history’s greatest generals and military geniuses, suffered his greatest defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. But eight years earlier, he had faced another enemy that ...

New facts about the role played by Napoleon in the emancipation of European Jewry at the beginning of the nineteenth century are revealed in an article in the current issue of The American Hebrew. The ...

Napoleon Bonaparte dreamed Paris would be the 'capital city of the universe' and much of what we see - and love - about Paris is thanks to him. The long straight boulevards, the fountains, the ...

Several dozen history buffs from across the state and as far as Albuquerque are getting ready to make some history in Julian this weekend. They’re cleaning their muskets and battle gear and polishing ...

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