Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The show, in its depiction of the early feminist movement, is an essential part of the ongoing fight for women’s progress.

Video captured a chaotic scene in Dayton, Ohio, as an unhinged white woman hurled the N-word — and laughably outlandish ...

1974 was a cultural pivot point. The optimism of earlier decades had burned away in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, ...

Sally Kirkland, a one-time model who became a regular on stage, film and TV, best known for sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in “The Sting” and her Oscar-nominated title role ...