From GRAILS’ gorgeous orange speakers, Fannie Lou Hamer sang “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Wade in the Water.” The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)’s Freedom Singers quartet sang ...

The plane, organized by the National Archives, will take rare 18th-century documents around the country in a tour loosely ...

Supreme Court leaves multibillion-dollar Boy Scouts bankruptcy settlement in place ...

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, many Ukrainian songs have become symbols of defiance and resilience in the face difficult circumstances. Aside from the national anthem, though, one song has stood ...

The opening chords hit and, in an instant, decades fall away. For many Baby Boomers, certain songs do more than trigger fond memories; they reopen the emotional landscape of their youth, from sunlit ...

Music played a powerful role in the Civil Rights era, providing a soundtrack for the movement and inspiring hope for change with songs like "We Shall Overcome", "A Change Is Gonna Come", "People Get ...

There are many elements that made The Grateful Dead singular, but one of the most defining was having two primary songwriters ...

This song feels like a shared coming-of-age story. Boomers often remember listening closely to the lyrics, trying to decode ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

At 101-years-old, World War II veteran Irving Locker became a songwriter, sharing his thoughts about what freedom really means. Some of the lyrics to his song, “If Freedom Was Free,” read, “If freedom ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...