State officials ushered in the start of the Illinois State Fair on Wednesday with the annual unveiling of the butter cow. The ...

When a fugitive slave was caught in Boston in 1854, many civic leaders were outraged — but they wouldn’t challenge slavery ...

Born enslaved, John Andrew Jackson spent his life fighting for freedom as a fugitive, abolitionist, lecturer and writer.

A play written in Smyth County is being staged by two Atkins brothers in a New York City theatre. The play carries a message from Appalachia to the city that ...