President Jimmy Carter posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

The Lincoln Memorial was built to honour Abraham Lincoln. Test your knowledge of the iconic Lincoln Memorial! Explore its ...

As Delbert Jackson turned right onto the clean, sandy-paved stretch of Martin Luther King Drive, his chin lifted with quiet ...

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

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 ...

Wikimedia Commons/bnbnhjt The 1939 Marian Anderson Easter Concert (Washington, D.C.) On April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson sang ...

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

With Friday being the Fourth of July, it seems fitting to share a column about a hero from my Star archives from a decade ago ...

The U.S. Senate approval this week has been of perhaps the most heinous bill ever, stealing from the poor to feed the rich on ...

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

This was during public participation hearings on the National Dialogue Committee report. His words were met with laughter and applause. A video of his impassioned explanation swiftly went viral, and ...

This article discusses how racial categories, rooted in social history, are used in records and society. It argues race isn’t ...