Timothy Egan, best-selling author of "A Fever in the Heartland," will come to Evansville March 19 to talk about his book and the city's KKK history.

Nathan Bedford Forrest, center, in a Confederate uniform, joins a caricature of an Irish immigrant, left, and Democratic Party chairman August Belmont in trampling the rights of a Black Union veteran, ...

Not everybody took it lying down. Two newspaper editors ... Finally, last week, the FBI cracked down. Ten Klansmen were hauled in on charges of kidnaping and flogging a white man and a white ...

By 2004, he was running his own little law firm, its offices down the road from the beach ... On more than one occasion, when mobs of Klansmen and other angry whites attacked demonstrators ...

His characters – convict, sheriff, Klansman, steelworker ... of three civil rights workers – a “scratchy, rumpled, down-home-talking redneck, who himself has murder in his heart,” as ...

Learn how the pardoning of insurrectionists by Presidents Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant led to periods of national harmony and violence.

Facing a barrage of complaints about homeless residents on downtown walkways, San Jose’s leaders just toughened the city’s ban on sitting or lying down on public sidewalks. An updated ...

It was a tough loss for the Bulls (24-37), who are still holding down the last play-in spot in the Eastern Conference. But Giddey said it provided more tough lessons that will benefit the team in ...

Listen to political scientist Pinar Dinc explain what’s led to the PKK’s ceasefire with Turkey on The Conversation Weekly ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man claimed he was shot by his dog while lying in bed on Monday morning, police say. The Memphis Police Department responded to the accidental injury call in the 700 block of ...