This past Friday, East Carolina sophomore Parker Byrd became the first NCAA Division 1 baseball player to compete on the diamond with a prosthetic leg....

When Betty Friedan first burst onto the national scene in 1963 with the publication of The Feminine Mystique, few may have anticipated she was launching...

Originally set aside in 1885 to remember and honor the life of George Washington, “Presidents’ Day” has now morphed in scope to commemorate all those...

When the Reverend Dr. Samuel Shoemaker passed away back in 1963, he was revered and remembered as a courageous cleric who didn’t shy away from...

As a child actor in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, Danica McKellar played the girl next door. Literally. “Gwendolyn ‘Winnie’ Cooper” was a neighbor...