How the remarkable musical transformed a beloved folk tale into a celebratory vision for the future of Black America ...

Eve Adams, an immigrant and the proprietor of a 1920s lesbian tearoom, was imprisoned for disorderly conduct and obscenity, ...

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

Using well-preserved ancient DNA, researchers have created a life-like facial reconstruction of a woman who lived in ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Tubman's 1863 raid, which destroyed seven plantations along the Combahee River in South Carolina and freed 756 enslaved ...

Though the B-17D was eased into the water in the trough between waves, it still struck with such force that bolted-down ...

Ashlie Crosson—an educator ensuring that students in her small hometown grow into lifelong learners who feel confident ...

With 454 images arranged with as little order as possible, viewers are encouraged to wander and make their own ...

Bent over by age and arthritis, the Phillips, Wisconsin, resident continued to build life-size and larger-than-life concrete ...

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More than 1,800 years ago, the thousands of pieces formed colorful frescoes that covered the walls of a luxurious villa in ...