A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Dec. 28, 1879: Brigadier General ...

The Palm Beach County commission has doubled down on preserving and celebrating African American history with new funding toward an $80 million Black museum development in West Palm Beach. The county ...

A profound unraveling is underway in the American Southwest, happening across a 1,000-mile arc from Santa Fe, N.M., to the central Sierra. In an unprecedented calamity, the most widely distributed, ...

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El Paso has significant history, whether it’s American western expansion via railroads, European colonization starting about 400 years ago, indigenous movement and settlement before that, or the ...

The American Pioneer embarked on its inaugural cruise from Key West after its christening on Nov. 10. Photo Credit: American Cruise Lines American Cruise Lines (ACL) christened its newest ship last ...

When discussing his work and its long conversation with the American story, Ken Burns often shares a version of a quote long attributed to Mark Twain. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim ...

Ken Burns’ upcoming six-part, 12-hour documentary “The American Revolution” doesn’t just tell the story of icons like George Washington or Benjamin Franklin. The series, which premieres Sunday on PBS, ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

Maybe it’s because my dad had old movies playing on the TV throughout my childhood, or maybe it’s because I grew up in rural California, where it was easy to imagine cowboys and campfires. Nowadays, I ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...