History

Steve Luxenberg tells the history around Plessy v. Ferguson, the disastrous 1896 Supreme Court decision that made racial segregation legal as “separate but equal.”

Historic preservationists hope the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing will persuade the United Nations to protect Armstrong's footprints in the lunar dust.

The tombstone of an African-American Civil War soldier — and possible graves of family members — have been discovered in Frankford, Delaware.

Why Father Divine, the man behind the iconic Divine Lorraine Hotel on North Broad Street in Philadelphia, left a complicated legacy.

Presidential historian joins Marty to compare our current political crisis to those throughout American history.

North Philadelphia’s Uptown Theater celebrated 90 years since it first opened its doors. Now, community organizers hope to fully reopen the theater by 2020.

Since restoration began in 1926, the dream of preserving this section of Williamsburg has come to include the chance to taste history.

The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced Friday.

Michael Tomasky on political polarization and how to end it

Writer Michael Tomasky argues that political polarization was baked into the American political process from the beginning.

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

The long-delayed opening of the House of Fates Holocaust museum in Budapest, whose entrance is marked by a Star of David, is expected this spring.

Across Kyoto, archaeologists are rushing to uncover and preserve relics of the city's heritage, as a pre-Olympic building boom sweeps the ancient former capital of Japan.

The 1984 photo has stirred a national political furor and reopened the long history of bigotry in American medicine.

Fifty years ago today, on Jan. 30, 1969, The Beatles gave what would be their final concert.