Nearly 100 years after the Civil War began, its last surviving veteran, Albert Woolson, passed away in Duluth, at age 106.

Elements of the blues traveled to America with enslaved people from Africa, and reached full flower in the Mississippi Delta.

A Tennessee mom let her teenage daughter change her name from Dixie after kids at school mocked her for it — and accused her ...

Even country music stars are catching on to the appeal of Leiper’s Fork and Franklin, with their intimate venues, rolling ...

Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

Lessons in which students take part in musical activities while learning the history of South African "freedom songs." They look at correlations, both musical and historical, to the African American ...

HORNELL — A Dansville resident is turning history into harmony with an original Civil War–inspired composition premiering later this month. Chris Lynn, a music teacher at Wayland-Cohocton Central ...

On a quiet street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, stands a building that could easily be overlooked. No neon sign, no glossy ...

Over the next two weeks, “Parade” will be marching across the Smith Theatre stage at Oakland Community College in Farmington Hills with a poignant reminder that history often repeats itself and that ...

Charleston, South Carolina became the ignition point for the U.S. Civil War when Confederate forces bombarded Fort Sumter, ...

Even country music stars are catching on to the appeal of Leiper’s Fork and Franklin, with their intimate venues, rolling ...

NEW YORK CITY—On a recent Saturday morning, Susan Metz, a retired public school teacher, shouted amid a throng of protesters at the “No Kings” march along Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza. The focus of her ...