The Trump-Vance campaign unveiled new portraits of the president-elect and vice president elect on Thursday, just days before their inaugurations.

At the Library of Congress, a team of scientists is working hard to make objects age as fast as possible. That may seem counter to the usual goals of a library, but the purpose is ultimately preservation: The institution’s accelerated-aging lab is studying ways to keep materials intact longer.

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and Co-Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died.

José "Cha Cha" Jiménez, a prominent Puerto Rican civil rights leader and founder of the Young Lords Organization, has died. He was 76. Jiménez died Friday morning, according to his sister Daisy Rodríguez, who first announced it in a Facebook post.

President Joe Biden presents David M. Rubenstein with the Medal of Freedom during a Jan. 4 ceremony at the White House. Rubenstein was honored for his “philanthropy and generous support for the restoration of historic landmarks and the country’s cultural institutions.”

Sister JoAnn Persch and Sister Pat Murphy used to set up a sacred space in the McHenry County Jail library once a week for immigrant detainees. The men held there — who could connect with their families only by phone — would file into the room in orange jumpsuits and take a seat.

José 'Cha Cha' Jiménez, civil rights activist and founder of the Young Lords Organization, died Friday, Jan. 10. He was 76.

Performing Arts Fort Worth will host a five-person panel at 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at New Fellowship Church of Fort Worth to discuss Cooke’s musical and cultural legacy. The hourlong session is followed by a concert,

Stock markets and the Postal Service will be closed on January 9 to mourn the death of Jimmy Carter. Here’s what else to know about the National Day of Mourning.

Eugene Scheel, a longtime local author, historian and mapmaker, was the man of the hour as more than 100 people gathered Jan. 4 at the Waterford Old School to honor

Plans remain fluid—but there is no doubt of a push for highly visible raids in Democratic cities in the first days of the new administration

My assumption that humanist academics were all on the left was foolish, of course. But so was my defeatist certainty that grad school hadn’t trained me for anything useful. In fact, as Elyse Graham shows in her snappy and entertaining Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II,