Black’s book on Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River raid, launched from Beaufort in June 1863, earned a Pulitzer Prize in ...

New research is shedding light on a 40-acre military camp for Black soldiers that fanned out from the southeast corner of ...

Alfred and Robert Taylor were brothers campaigning to be Tennessee's governor in 1886. Their race was civil and a hopeful ...

Lady Vols basketball 2025 signees Mia Pauldo, Deniya Prawl and Jaida Civil are all playing in Tuesday's McDonald's All-American game.

As catchphrases go, “speaking truth to power” is a beaut. It’s a storied expression that packs loads of meaning and emotional pow! into four short words. Like a deft line of poetry, “speaking truth to ...

We describe this phenomenon as an underappreciated “double power law” of American innovation. First, federal research funding, distributed widely and without rigid priorities, produces breakthrough ...

The myth of magic soil, however, inverts this truth, claiming instead that there is no real definition of “an American” save one who lives on American soil.