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After five years of running top-notch Roots 101 museum, founder Lamont Collins finally got the support from the Louisville ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

Jess Walter's novel 'So Far Gone' is set in the present and features a reclusive protagonist in search of lost family, ...

IT’S AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH. FOR THE LAST TWO WEEKS, WE’VE TAKEN A LOOK AT DIFFERENT AMERICAN MUSIC GENRES ...

India-US continued to talk for the sixth day in Washington to converge on a common ground with US showing signs of easing some of its punitive tariffs ...

Jess Walter, author of “Beautiful Ruins,” returns with “So Far Gone,” a short novel set in present day America. It opens with a “great hook,” writes Associated Press reviewer Rob ...

There's the museum passionately devoted to a type of condiment, one that celebrates a popular variety of vegetable, a museum ...

The Pennsylvania Northeast Chapter, American Guild of Organists, will present its annual  “Celebrate America” Independence ...

When the history of the United States in 2025 is written, perhaps one of the best things that will be said is: ...