Important Arkansas historical events and significant anniversaries for December 24, and notable births and deaths of native ...

The AFRO knows what it’s like to endure challenging times. John H. Murphy, Sr., a former enslaved man founded the AFRO in 1892 with $200 from his wife, Martha Howard Murphy. Together they created a ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Destined to become the Confederacy’s only president, Jefferson Davis entered politics in 1845, when Mississippians ...

SWOOPE — Danny Shirley, the leads singer for Confederate Railroad, said the band doesn't work from a set list. The songs he sings on stage are whatever pops into his head or, maybe more accurately, ...

Cory explores the displacement of Indigenous People and the problem with broken treaties. Why did the Tuscarora leave their homes in the Carolinas to become the Sixth Nation of the Haudenosaunee ...

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. When you purchase through ...

A county music venue in Scotland voted this week to end its controversial display of the Confederate flag. The Grand Ole Opry in Glasgow previously would end evenings of live music with “a salute to ...

Timrod did not fight in the Civil War, but he wrote poems about it and its effect on life in the South. While he became known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy, he is a relatively obscure poet ...

, Ala. - Darkness settled over the battlefield and as soldiers bedded down for the night the familiar lyrics rose - music and voices blending from both Union and Confederate camps. On more than one ...