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At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family line, and he takes readers along on the journey.

Former South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel has announced his candidacy for governor, marking his return to politics after ...

All of this can be heard and seen in her passion project- "Liberty Hill: An Unpolished Jewel." Produced by rising filmmaker, ...

It’s been a year now since the big move. Up and off the farm we did go after living on the family homestead for over 40 years. We’d never really ...

Nineteenth-century activists revolutionized attitudes toward nonhuman animals amid cultural, economic, and moral shifts in a rapidly changing nation.