On this date in history: In 1215, under pressure from rebellious barons, England's King John signed the Magna Carta, a crucial first step toward creating Britain's constitutional monarchy. In 1752, ...

Crosby Kemper III interviews Henry Ossian Flipper. Kansas City Public Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American West Point graduate, as portrayed ...

Imagine being the “first” to do something, a person who has chosen to tread a path no one has ever walked before. Now envision that the course you have chosen is one that will make a lot of people not ...

This year on May 22, the President of the United States and Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, Barack Obama, was the graduation speaker for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New ...

FORT SILL, Okla. (Feb. 18, 2016) -- History turns up in the most inconspicuous places such as a simple rock monument with a dedication to an almost forgotten West Point graduate. The rock monument is ...

The following story was written by the late Rick Smith and published in the Feb. 4, 2007 edition of the San Angelo Standard-Times in honor of Black History Month: The new cadet said his first ...

BORN IN 1917, 93-year-old Maureen Flipper, a resident of The Redwoods in Mill Valley, is the niece of Henry Ossian Flipper, who in 1877 endured four years of the silent treatment at West Point to ...

Imagine being the “first” to do something, a person who has chosen to tread a path no one has ever walked before. Now envision that the course you have chosen is one that will make a lot of people not ...