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The Atlanta shooting has led to heated discussion about the blame — and violence — aimed at Asians during the pandemic. It's the latest example in a long history of hatred fueled by disease.

British rocker Phil Collins is one of the world's foremost Alamo artifact collectors, and a preview of that collection is now on display at the Alamo.

The new owner of a building in Geneva, N.Y., found a walled-off room — sealed by drywall and lost to time. There he discovered century-old photographs and equipment — and a mystery.

People are stuck at home, toiling away, getting bored, going stir crazy. Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. It only makes sense, then, that shanties have come full circle with a moment of unprecedented popularity during the pandemic.

Some Republicans are arguing that former President Donald Trump should not face a Senate impeachment trial because he's a private citizen. That was argued before — and rejected narrowly — in 1876.

KERA's Galilee Abdullah spoke with Louie Dean Valencia-García, a professor of digital history at Texas State University, who said the attack on the Capitol is rooted in a history of fascism in the U.S.

"Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico" tells war stories of women in the 20th century and beyond, who became part of Mexico's "collective DNA."

Tim Todd talks about why these banks were important, the people who formed them and why they declined over the years.

Dozens of events were planned to mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival at what we now know as Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Donald Trump is only the third president in American history to be impeached. Dallas-based historian Jeffrey A. Engel sat down with Think’s Krys Boyd to…

From Texas Standard:There’s a historical marker in Presidio County that tells the story of a massacre that took place a century ago in the small town of…

The Kinsey Collection spans centuries — covering everything from the Civil Rights movement to the Harlem Renaissance and the legacy of slavery.It's one of…