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WWII veteran secures long-denied military benefits, honors
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoEarly Jones got his military honors Thursday, more than 75 years late. The World War II veteran...
Mi Abuela, the World War II Hero
The Oprah Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Cresencia Garcia fell critically ill during the early months of COVID, her granddaughter turned to social media for support. She ended up...
The Cultural Politics Behind America's Continuing Fascination With JFK
Time via Yahoo News· 7 months agoChancellor Konrad Adenauer, arriving at the White House in 1961 for his final conference with...
The Nazis studied US eugenics and Jim Crow laws as a model for their policies. When they were...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTop: A segregated store for migrant workers in Belle Glade, Florida, in 1941. Bottom: The Warsaw...
Congress Got More Done When the Greatest Generation Ran It
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoESSAY High above the cityscape in Battle Creek, Mich., rises a 15-story tower, the centerpiece of a...
Black D-Day combat medic’s long-denied medal laid on Omaha Beach
Army Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA medal richly deserved but long denied to an African American combat medic wounded on Omaha Beach...
Heritage event to celebrate Oak Ridge's Black baseball team
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Oak Ridge Heritage and Preservation Association on Nov. 10 will celebrate the Oak Ridge Bombers,...
Misread, illegible, invisible: Searching for a vocabulary for Tule Lake
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 6 months agoFrom our bus, we could see acres of sun-dried grasses in a hot and arid Northern California. On...
In life and death, Black-owned Bell Funeral Home has been a pillar of South Providence
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPROVIDENCE — At the corner of Broad Street and Dartmouth Avenue, the Bell Funeral Home is a stately...
A timeline of how the John Castleman statue went from revered to reviled to removed
The Courier Journal via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor nearly 107 years, the bronze likeness of Gen. John Breckinridge Castleman — soldier, horseman...