Jonathan Eig, speaking Thursday at the National Writers Series, won a Pulitzer for 'King: A Life.' Now, comes a look at ...

The fact that slaves were sold in St. Augustine isn't in dispute; in 1827, the young New England writer Ralph Waldo Emerson passed through and saw a slave auction in full swing. When King came in 1964 ...

A staunch champion of pluralism, he was described in Time magazine as “the most influential living interpreter of religion in ...

A former Lutheran pastor, Martin Marty rose to become one of the country’s preeminent historians and interpreters of religion ...

Throughout his distinguished career, University of Chicago Prof. Emeritus and the Rev. Dr. Martin E. Marty was one of the ...

3.And here's Ham The Chimp, the first great ape (and the first chimpanzee) in space. NASA sent Ham out in 1961 after 15 ...

68.And finally, this is the oldest photograph ever taken. Nicéphore Niépce took the photo from his window in France in 1826.

Improvisation — whether in jazz or comedy — may seem like a modern invention ... ancient bards to Beethoven and Mozart, and to Martin Luther King, Jr. Which is to say it can show up when ...

D uring his confirmation hearing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth repeatedly insisted he is not a racist nor a misogynist, but ...