Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” address at 1963’s March on Washington is perhaps the most famous speech in ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

The professor behind the "History That Doesn't Suck" podcast tackles 100 Years in 100 Minutes at The Broadberry.

From fireworks to ice sculptures to archery, Boston's First Night celebration is stacked with a line up of lively activities to ring in the new year on Wednesday.

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, his powerful words from the "I Have a Dream" speech resonate as a call to action. The "Quote of the Day" from 1963 urges a move from segregation's darkness to racial ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...

The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...

“Waiting for the Hour.” Carte-de-visite of an emancipation watch night meeting on Dec. 31, 1863, where African American men, women and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the ...

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? / Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality.” A whole rock opera packed into one track, “Bohemian Rhapsody” sets the stage for this rock classic from ...