Hundreds of requests for pardons and clemency petitions for federal convictions are filed each year, but usually just a few result in a presidential pardon or commutation of sentence. Recent ...

A bouquet, in any form, is an expression of emotions, said Susie Matteson, former owner of Peters and Sons Flowers and Gifts.

Sacco and Vanzetti are interred, not in a tomb — their bodies were cremated shortly after their executions — but in an archive, a testament to a radical tradition and the first Red Scare which sought ...

One year after the Civil War ended, Hagar Outlaw, a formerly enslaved woman in North Carolina, was desperate to find eight of ...

Discover how the AFRO and the Black labor movement have shaped history, and the ongoing impact on labor rights and civil rights.

A Jewish group is taking Library and Archives Canada to court to try to force the federal government to release the names of ...

Graham's Farm in Lake City was a stop for Francis Marion’s troops during the Revolutionary War. A festival, reenactment bring ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

Huff, Confederate veteran, and a graduate of the old Winchester Medical College, which was located here prior to the Civil ...

The Trump administration is forcing out senior leadership at the National Archives and Records Administration in a major ...

A Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in ...