Democracy finds itself in a crisis as the 1930s take off. On a global scale, Fascist or otherwise authoritarian and ...

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project has spent years installing memorials throughout the city to honor those ...

On Sunday, Nov. 9, guests will see the same film shown on opening night, “The Witness For the Defense” – and for the same ...

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The earliest test of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity took place just four years after he published it. During ...

A state marker that remembers one of the darkest chapters in Longview’s history now has a home outside the Gregg County Courthouse. The Texas Historical Commission marker for the 1919 race riot was ...

Americans searching for a rallying cry for the cause of black men and women killed in police-involved incidents have found inspiration in recent years in "If We Must Die," a poem by Jamaican writer ...

From the Black Sox to City College to cricket, some players and managers have looked to make an extra buck for decades. By Victor Mather Sports in the United States and around the world have been ...

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, BVM, 106, of 55 E Pearson St, Chicago, died Thursday, October 9, 2025, at The Clare in Chicago, Ill. Visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 15 at the ...

Following the Philadelphia Phillies' crushing defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLDS, there are a lot of questions that need to be asked by the organization. The main one is ...

A version of this story appears in the September 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Philadelphia detected its first case of a deadly, fast-spreading strain of influenza on September 17, 1918.