Nancy Hays was off to the races as soon as she heard Isaac Burns Murphy’s story when she visited the Kentucky Derby Museum in 2019. Murphy, a famous African-American jockey in the late 1800s, had been ...

Suzette Hughes absolutely loves the chicken fingers at Raising Cane’s. She used to eat at the one in Alexandria, Louisiana, ...

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As soon as Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for 75,000 ...

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Even in cases where their names were put on a tombstone for the public to pay their respects, they weren't placed at the actual burial location. Explore this gallery to see which famous figures were ...

It's an Omaha staple, the Memorial Day ceremony at Memorial Park. Fallen soldiers were honored with classic traditions like the Flanders Field of Flags and red poppies. This year, the event included ...

(AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) CORRECTS DATE AND BYLINE OF IMAGE - FILE- The grave of American rock singer and poet, Jim Morrison, stands in France’s most famous graveyard, Le Pere LaChaise cemetery, ...