1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

Although Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Twin brothers John Middleton Clayton and William Henry Harrison Clayton were born on their father’s farm near Philadelphia in October 13, 1840. Their lives were defined like many men of that ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

Jones's book Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern ...

Barry McNealy, a historian with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, joined the CBS 42 Morning News to discuss the importance of Juneteenth.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

Donald Trump made these remarks at the White House days after sending National Guard to LA amid protests over aggressive ICE ...