"So many of my assumptions about the world and how to better it were turned upside down." ...

WASHINGTON — A proposed constitutional amendment to limit the ability of a U.S. president to issue pardons or acts of clemency got a major boost this week. On Monday, the Pardon Integrity Act, first ...

Robert Duvall, who earned a lasting place in movie history for his roles in “The Godfather" and “Apocalypse Now," has died at ...

Film-maker Scott Cooper describes how his small role in a civil war drama starring Duvall led to a happy, lifelong friendship with the great actor, who died earlier this week ...

Born to a Cape Girardeau plantation, Mary Hunter Giboney Houck managed Elmwood, backed her husband’s railroads, aided Confederate veterans and helped found Cape’s DAR chapter.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, Baptist minister and two-time presidential candidate, died Tuesday morning, ...

By 1864, more than 12,000 surgeons had served in the Union army throughout the Civil War. Just 14 of them were Black. Historian Jill Newmark's 2023 book is the first-ever comprehensive exploration of ...

Author Virginia Pye may now reside in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but her long-term home was Richmond, and it serves as the ...

A haunting flashback in Episode 5 of 'A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' reveals the fall of the 'Black Dragon,' tying the story ...

ASG Commercial is handling the sale of the 1645 Inn and Lodge, in the "picturesque village of Auldearn", two miles from Nairn.

Martha Washington's enslaved maid fled Philadelphia in 1796. The National Park Service removed her story from the exhibit.

The British actor-musician is just about everywhere right now. This week, he's in Berlin for the premiere of Dara Van Dusen's ...