For many years, Greenville native Jere Nash was best known as a tough, smart Democratic political consultant who entered Mississippi government service as former Democratic Gov. Ray Mabus’s chief of ...

There is a curious passage in W.E.B. Du Bois’ 1903 masterpiece, The Souls of Black Folk, that tries to capture the zeitgeist of those closing decades of the 19th century that ended Reconstruction and ...

Pennsylvania journalist Charles B. Fancher was born six years after his great-grandfather died and didn’t know much about his ancestor until a few years ago. While visiting his “decorous” 92-year-old ...

Summer is edging closer, which means another major American holiday is coming up. Here's what you need to know about when Memorial Day is this year, why it's celebrated and how it got its start. This ...

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans, 1868. Credit - A.R. Waud—Library of Congress I have taught Souls every year of my career as a ...