Mal Goode was the first black network journalist to work as a national television correspondent in the country. The Pittsburgh native is also the focus of a new biography. KDKA's Mamie Bah tells more ...

A six-part History Channel documentary offers a clear-eyed view of Jefferson’s flaws, contradictions and triumphs.

In a provocative essay, a major publisher announced that its authors will no longer be required to solicit glowing reviews ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

Our 46 Heads of State all had interactions with the Jewish community – positive and negative, historic and bizarre ...

The music industry pushed the group behind hits like “Manic Monday” and “Eternal Flame” hard, then pulled them apart. A new ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white ...

The Academy Award-nominated actor is under fire for a series of tweets that resurfaced Thursday, expressing her views on topics such as race and religion. Read our review of The Brutalist, which ...

Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney: while critics questioned Linda’s musical talent, she performed heroics in emotional support. Picture: Getty ...

William E. Leuchtenburg, one of the nation’s preeminent historians and the leading scholar on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, died Tuesday at the age of 102.

As part of the rich tapestry of her ascendancy background, Lady Gregory’s great-grandfather had known George Washington ... As Judith Hill reveals in her biography, "Lady Gregory: An Irish ...