It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress voted to replace the colonies' part-time militias with a full-time army – and ...

In 1967, the three-day Monterey International Pop Music Festival, a major event of the “Summer of Love,” opened in northern California. In 1977, Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid ...