Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families that long preserved them.

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Actor and director David Oyelowo shared his thoughts about playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the 2014 historical ... to feel that question when he plays Lincoln." He went on: "You know, white ...

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Abraham Lincoln, Sacagawea, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Wright brothers alongside figures like Walt Whitman, Kobe Bryant, Julia Child, Johnny Cash and Hannah Arendt. Mr. Trump has ...

His mistake was that after winning, he misremembered, as is his custom, what he had offered the public. Rather than ...

When Donald Trump made his inaugural speech at the US Capitol, he began by proclaiming to the audience of former presidents ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

After just cutting more than 1,000 grants, the National Endowment for the Humanities is recruiting artists to create 250 statues for President Donald Trump's Garden of Heroes idea in time for the ...

That night, President Abraham Lincoln and First Lady Mary ... as a natural result of hatred between the races,” Martin Luther King Jr. later observed, “[but] was really a political stratagem ...