This week on The Sound Kitchen, you'll hear an interview with Lisa Waller Rogers about her new book When People Were Things: ...

The free exhibition on Nov. 22 will feature artifacts from the Transatlantic Slave Trade and discussions on American ...

Explore the truths behind Civil War and slavery myths that persist in America and understand the real history behind them.

Pope Leo XIV spoke of the beatification this week of Mother Elisva Vakha’i, a 19th-century Indian religious and founder of ...

Trump has called museums too “woke.” But Republican lawmakers across the South see potentially lucrative opportunities with ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a ...

If Part I was survival made sacred and Part II protest made prophetic, Part III is freedom made constructive —a theology with hammer and nails, rosary and tambourine, scripture and song, building a ...

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding Father’s words to present him as an abolitionist without mentioning he had ...

In the cinematic realm, action has always been such a genre that thrills audiences with high-octane sequences and adrenaline- ...

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President Trump kicked off his Cabinet meeting Thursday by signing a proclamation honoring Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus – declaring, “We’re back, Italians.” “Our Nation will now abide by a ...

On Sept. 23, 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley stood before the women of the Relief Society and unveiled what has since become one of the most cited, celebrated and contested texts in modern ...