Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault talks about how a Gibson J-45 that he just seemed meant to have eventually found its way ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

One of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz has warned that the antisemitism seen today is “frighteningly similar” to that in the 1940s - eighty years on from the camp’s liberation. Tova Friedman, 86, ...

To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new English-language map illustrates the sheer extent to which Jews in Prague were persecuted during the 1940s. Developed by Czech universities in ...

In the 1940 NFL Championship Game, Washington’s defense allowed seven rushing touchdowns in a 73-0 loss to the Bears, the most lopsided result in NFL history. No team had ever given up seven rushing ...

The Anchorage Museum and the City of Nenana have acquired the golden railroad spike that was used in a celebration commemorating the completion of the Alaska Railroad in 1923. The item was ...

Those songs still follow me, to deepen my hatred of slavery and ... American raids or spontaneous internal uprisings were invariably ill-fated. The Underground Railroad provided a much more organised ...