When Martin Luther King Jr. landed in Memphis on April 3, 1968, no one knew he would be killed the next day. When he gave his famous Mountaintop speech, no…

Stubby, an orphaned stump-tailed terrier pup, was adopted by Private Robert Conroy while attending basic training on the campus of Yale University in 1917. Conroy never imagined his dog would…

[This] book examines the history of American immigration–a critical topic in 21st century America–particularly those lesser-known stories of immigrants who were denied entrance into the States or detained for security…

James Meredith’s 1966 march in Mississippi began as one man’s peaceful protest for voter registration and became one of the South’s most important demonstrations of the civil rights movement. It…