Margaret Pagan's father was no conscript. No, James Roswell Dorsey Sr. wanted to fight in World War II--even knowing full well he could have probably gotten out of it, because he had two new babies.

As the riots in Baltimore reach violent levels of destruction, people have been quick to draw a stark contrast to the political and social activism that defined the 1960s. Specifically, images like ...

From Slate, on the Baltimore riots: "Why would anyone burn down the only CVS in their neighborhood? The reason is likely the same reason poor black Americans in cities across the country burned 'their ...

A couple hundred employees of the Baltimore department store Hochschild Kohn & Co. heard brothers Martin and Louis Kohn reveal the company had been sold to a little known Midwest investment firm on ...

The pride was evident in Kim Randall’s voice as she described the police officer handing her a citation. “My grandmother should be proud of me,” said Randall, 52, a Baltimore hotel worker who donned a ...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Sean Connery, the actor who died Oct. 31 at age 90, starred in a film partially set in 1960s Baltimore. There is no record of his actually working here on the movie, but its director, ...