This past Saturday, my son and his wife invited me to go with them to a play about Thomas Paine. This was an excellent one-man show with an actor that was properly dressed, moved realistically on a ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied ...

“Common Sense,” his first major work, was an urgent wake-up call to every light-sleeping lover of liberty within earshot. In ...

Thomas Edison had an encyclopedic memory, and by the early 1920s, he had become increasingly frustrated by the fact that college graduates applying to work for him didn’t have a wealth of knowledge ...

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - On Oct. 15, 1991, the United States Senate voted to confirm Clarence Thomas to the United States Supreme Court. He had been nominated in July to the seat of retiring Justice ...

New Orleans City Councilmember Oliver Thomas conceded the mayor's race Saturday night, but not without throwing a few final punches. Speaking before a crowd of supporters at the Maison Blanche event ...

Official gubernatorial portrait of Thomas Jefferson Terral, 27th governor of Arkansas (1925-1927). (Courtesy of the Arkansas Secretary of State’s Office) Tom Terral was one of only a handful of ...

That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution ... more vigorously that you not take his word for it. Paine was a student of history, and history is chock-full of ...

Diane Keaton famously never married during her acclaimed Hollywood career, though she has been linked to a number of famous faces. Keaton, who died in October 2025 at the age of 79, had long been ...