The delayed freedom of Texas slaves reveals much about the fragile nature of legal authority when confronted by entrenched ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued more than two ...

The Beacon of Freedom rises 47 feet and was designed by Perkins&Will, and fabricated by Demiurge. It was inspired by civil leader and activist Lyda Moore Merrick, who once said: “My father passed a ...

President Donald Trump said he would send 700 U.S. Marines to Los Angeles because of demonstrations. Can he do that?

President Donald Trump has long mused about his desire to send in troops to crush political protests, but his decision to ...

Part two of two. Part one is available here. The Civil War was over, but now Arkansas and Augustus Hill Garland had many ...

This new version by company ballet master Albert Mirzoyan is based on Marius Petipa’s 1877 original, but with the added bonus of a reconstructed Act 4, often omitted by tradition. The result is an ...