While many American towns claim to have held the earliest celebrations of the holiday, U.S. officials declared Waterloo, New ...

One of the earliest Memorial Day observances occurred on May 1, 1865. Organized by freed slaves and white missionaries.

From elaborate cake decoration ... research did I realize that there was a real back history to reality television, and that's where this book came from. It's an origin story.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen troops. But it's come to anchor the unofficial start of ...

While their friends cannonball into the city pool, my sons will be in an Eastern Kentucky cemetery, placing flowers on graves ...

The origins of Memorial Day can be found in the hearts of grieving families after the Civil War. Casualties were felt in ...

Wright Thompson, a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, is the author of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. Most everyone is taught that Emmett Till whistled at ...

Dartmouth resident Joel Ávila has written a new book exploring the history and culture of Pico Island in the Azores. The book, "Shades of Black and Gray - An inquiry into the Island of Pico and ...

The title is “The Book-Makers” by Adam Smyth (Basic Books, 2024). It is a very interesting history of the physical printed book which is very timely during these contemporary times because the ...