One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...

When one thinks of the defining TV performances of the past 25 or so years, what comes to mind? For Variety staffers, some of ...

If you want a depressing — albeit instructive — lesson in how little we've progressed in 60 years, go see the Chicago ...

Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley” is a creative re-enactment of James Baldwin and William F. Buckley's 1965 battle about the ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

Two months after the war ended, Confederate soldiers destroyed a fleet of Yankee ships, which were harvesting bowhead whales ...

About 150 years ago, a few days after summer solstice, the gray skies above the Diomede Islands were heavy with smoke from whaling ships set ablaze by Confederate sailors who ...

In 1965 in Cambridge, scholar and civil rights icon James Baldwin faced off with conservative leader William F. Buckley, debating the question, “Is the American Dream achieved at the expense of the ...

Hilaria Baldwin, who shares seven kids with the 30 Rock actor, revealed he has dropped not-so-subtle hints about expanding their large family—and now, she’s not shying away from sharing her ...

Civil War surgeons learned fast. Here are a few of the MacGyver-like medical solutions that have had a lasting impact.

Alec Baldwin did not plan on getting married again. A messy divorce from ex-wife Kim Basinger had left him soured on the institution, while he also felt that remarrying would send their daughter ...

The single largest investment in Alabama history is the Novelis Aluminum and Recycling Plant in North Baldwin County opening in 2026. The massive construction project is taking shape and Bay Minette ...