Harvard American history professor Jill Lepore set out to explore ideas of political equality, natural rights and the sovereignty of the people in her...
This year is the 50th anniversary of George Romero's 1968 film, "Night of the Living Dead." While Romero's film popularized zombies as a horror trope,...
June 19 is Juneteenth , t he oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States . However, many people have never...
The Georgia 2018 legislative session recently legalized the use of cannabis oil for treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD affects about 31...
To many Georgians, barbecue is not just food. It's a lifestyle. Over the years, barbecue has evolved in the Atlanta area. Southern folks still grill out...
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice details a painful legacy in American history: the lynchings of thousands of African-American men, women and...
In the year since President Trump took office, a new wave of social movements has rippled across the country. March for Science Atlanta brings together...
Modern gynecology was largely born in the antebellum South -- because some of this country’s first gynecologists conducted experiments on enslaved women...
On Skidaway Island today, you’ll find a state park, a marine science institute, and a private golf community. But 150 years ago, right after the Civil...
The Underground Railroad wasn’t a real railroad. There were no chugging engines or steel tracks, but there are both of those things in author Colson...
For generations, U.S. presidents had slaves. Ten of the first fifteen presidents were slave owners or raised in a slaveholding household, a fact that’s...
A new TV series called “Underground” premieres Wednesday night on WGN America. It tells the story of a slave escape from a Macon, Georgia plantation in...
