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News anchor John Dickerson spoke with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his latest film, "The American Revolution," which ...

Although several new countries emerged from the debris of the First World War, the Imperial powers especially France and ...

The Declaration of Independence is full of promise and a few mysteries. A rare copy of it ended up at The Henry Ford Museum ...

The former Detroit home of the late civil rights activist Rosa Parks has been approved for a local historic district ...

Rosa Parks and her husband Raymond lived in the Detroit flat from 1961 until 1988. The flat's owner sought the historic ...

Five Long Island students were among six recipients statewide of the "highest honors" designation at this year's New York ...

R osa Parks transformed American history with her quiet defiance. On December 1, 1955, her refusal to give up her bus seat in ...

A Detroit City Council committee took a step on Thursday toward officially recognizing the former longtime flat of civil ...

Black civil rights leaders used transportation as a means to challenge white supremacy, aiding movements for organized labor ...

A proposal is pending for the former Detroit home of Civil Rights Movement activists Rosa and Raymond Parks to be named a local historic district.