But the headline act was not the ship, it was the Mississippi itself. Dubbed “the great artery of America” by Civil War ...

Michael Robertson grew up singing church songs out of hymn books—classics like “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior” and “Lord, I ...

While preparing for his Grand Ole Opry debut, Alabama-born, Big Loud-signed folk-soul performer Kashus Culpepper discussed ...

Kashus Culpepper, a 27-year-old Central Alabama native, plays a brand of soul music so comfortably familiar to the broader American musical tradition that it is primarily responded to with the ...

We remember those we lost in December, including producer Richard Perry, followed by our tributes from the prior months of ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on civil rights?

Jim Lutzweiler had traveled to Plains, Ga., to find the grave of Jimmy Carter’s colorful brother, Billy, whose shenanigans he had followed, and came across the epitaph for the former president ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of pagean ...

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...

On what would have been The King’s 90th birthday, one mega-fan recalls a road trip that offered a window into a bygone America Should I kiss the wall of Elvis Presley’s bedroom? This was the ...

I’ve been reflecting on three issues since we returned from a two-week trip in Nigeria three weeks ago. Before that visit, I had not been to Nigeria for 14 years. My last visit was in 2010, even ...