When author and journalist Mirta Ojito set out to explore a chapter of forgotten history, she never imagined that she would discover part of her own family’s lost heritage. Ojito had long been ...

KITTANNING — In April 1775, William Thompson, a man rarely if ever mentioned in American history books, became the first commissioned colonel in the Continental Army of a rifle battalion in the 1st ...

Silas Goodson was reputed to be the oldest man in the world, reportedly living to around 130 years old. He was enslaved in ...

Since age 13, August Bernadicou has been racing to preserve oral histories of queer activists and performers who lived through gay liberation—before their memories vanish. August Bernadicou interviews ...

The forgotten true story of American war hero John Charles Robinson, a.k.a. The Brown Condor of Ethiopia, and the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of ...