John Brown is starting an army, and he tells Frederic Douglas he's set on it. He believes slavery cannot be abolished without ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event ...

As the 1968 Olympian turns 80, his life provides a lesson for our times: Don’t sell out. Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold ...

David Roy chats to Dublin poet Siobhán Flynn, winner of this year’s Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry at the Belfast Book ...

And what is so rare as a day in June?” asked the nineteenth-century New England poet James Russell Lowell in an 1848 ...