The South Carolina Capitol grounds will soon include a statue of Robert Smalls, a formerly enslaved Civil War hero, among the statues of five white men, most with ties to the Civil War or Jim Crow.

WASHINGTON — The statue in the Jefferson Memorial is 19 feet tall, but it’s the words carved in stone around the bronze figure that are truly monumental. Such as these, from Jefferson’s Declaration of ...

When over 200 city workers were laid off in September 1938, city workers called a weeklong sanitation strike. Street battles raged in West Philadelphia when strikers blocked police-escorted trash ...

Here's how the Fourth of July deepened the message of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Tour — and exposed its shortcomings, just ...

For roughly 30 years, downtown Yakima had its own version of the Statue of Liberty. If a Yakima historian has his way, it ...

As the US celebrates its 250th birthday in 2026, there is no better place to be during this historic milestone than ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the U.S., was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma ...

Construction begins Monday at the long-time location for the iconic statue, Main Street between SW 3rd and 4th. Crews will begin to install the new fountain that surrounded the statue.

Fifty years have now passed since Ashe stunned Connors in four sets to become the first – and to this day only – Black man to ...