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Tanure Ojaide: A Poet Is Honoured At Home
This title is a hackneyed adaptation of Jesus Christ’s submission that “a prophet is without honour in his own country,” as recounted in the Bible in Mark chapter 6 verse 4. The scripture speaks to ...
Sgt. William Carney, whose Civil War heroism was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the movie "Glory," will get his own comic ...
The artist often engages with the concept of ever-shifting time and materiality as a tool for preserving and archiving ...
Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...
It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once was memorized by generations ...
NewsNation Chief Washington Anchor and On Balance host Leland Vittert gives you an early look at tonight’s 9 p.m. ET show.
Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the ...
It’s been 250 years since that fateful night. Now, a different warning echoes – the specter of a new authoritarianism, writes Mike Dean.
Paul Revere raced through the Massachusetts country side on horseback to warn patriot leaders that British soldiers were on ...
This week (April 19 to be exact) marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord in which civilian militia, known as the Minute Men, routed British troops who had marched from ...
A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...
Born in New Orleans in 1812, Armand Lanusse was a free man of color who worked as an educator, editor, poet, writer and ...