When mourners filled Saint Peter’s Church in Manhattan on October 16, 2003, to commemorate the life of Herbert Aptheker, the Marxist historian of slavery who died at 87, they did not lack for ...

The Father of Environmental Justice Isn’t Done Yet Robert Bullard has been fighting a sometimes lonely battle since the 1970s. For his many heirs, the struggle has just begun.

Boris Yeltsin, who died on April 23, was a towering figure in Russian political history. But was he, as so many US obituaries and editorials have described him, the "Father of Russian Democracy ...

The move comes a few days after the Yunus-led government dropped the portrait of the country's founding father and deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina's father Mujibur Rahman from new currency notes.

Three generations: The author and his grandfather, the Rev. Rafe Kelley (top right), in Boston, and Donald Kelley, the author’s father as a grown man and (bottom right) as a 10-year-old preacher ...

Papua New Guinea's first prime minister and "father of the nation" Sir Michael Somare died on Friday after what his family described as a brief battle with cancer. He was 84.

To the very end, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, though frail and somewhat forgetful, remained the Father of the Nation for South Africans. It could even be said that, in the several trips he’s made ...

Washington, Truly the Father of the Nation A discussion of the most important American president of them all — our first. Historian Joseph Ellis talks about his 2004 biography, His Excellency ...

The Father of the Nation, George Washington Was Also a Doting Dad to His Family Though he had no biological children, the first president acted as a father figure to Martha’s descendants.