Only one copy of a single issue still exists. In fact, one of the only things known about the Messenger is that in 1921, the white-dominated Charlottesville Daily Progress reprinted a Messenger ...

You can’t extinguish fire with fire. You can’t address a mistake with another mistake. You have to correct the situation in ...

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On June 15, 1859, an American settler named Lyman Cutlar noticed a pig rooting around in his potato patch on one of the San Juan Islands. The pig had "been at several times a great annoyance," and the ...

It was dangerously cold outside on Monday, which necessitated that Donald Trump's inauguration ceremony be held inside the ...

On Monday, as President Donald Trump’s inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, some of the president’s most ...

American Civil War quickly showed both sides the costs of war. Each year proved a drain as the human toll became apparent.

The Battle of Gettysburg, too, was explicitly a family affair. Many families sent soldiers who fought on opposite sides, ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The U.S. is set to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life ...

Every year, the state of Florida observes the birth of Confederate General Robert E. Lee as an official state holiday.