The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

The name comes from the amateur botanist and statesman Joel Roberts Poinsett, who happened upon the plant in 1828.

John Benge detachment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Benge, a Cherokee court judge ... A marker telling Hackett's story is now installed in the flower bed at the northwest corner of the downtown ...

L ong before the poinsettia graced holiday decorations, it held deep cultural and spiritual significance for the Aztecs, who ...

Three stops along the Georgia section of the Trail of Tears, a National Park Service site that documents the Cherokee journey, will dispel any ignorance about their distinctive history.

The poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holiday season. But now, attention is once again turning to the ...

The Trail of Tears remains a stain on the land of the free and home of the brave to this day. The scale of President-elect Donald Trump's proposed "rounding up" for removal of the undocumented ...

The Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee is working with Native groups to honor people who passed through Steelville during their forced removal from their ancestral homes in the East by the U.S ...

Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Korean dramas Queen of Tears and A Bloody Lucky Day were recently honored at both the Asian Academy Creative Awards and the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Zilker Park will transform into a winter wonderland this December in commemoration of the 60th year of the Austin Trail of Lights. More than two million lights, 90 holiday trees ...