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The final years of legendary jazz musician Mary Lou Williams’ life were shrouded in mystery. Until now.

As a new monument is unveiled at the US Capitol, we look at the legacy of one of America's most influential religious figures.

College football has become a money-sucking machine, with schools spending every dollar possible to keep up in an athletics arms race.

Every summer, a group of Jane Austen enthusiasts gather to celebrate her work… in an unexpected place.

The rise, fall and reinvention of North Carolina's furniture industry has left average Americans with few good options.

Among aficionados and fans of bluegrass, it's generally accepted that this quintessentially American genre of music was born in Nashville, Tennessee and was introduced by Earl Scruggs. But it's Kentuckian Bill Monroe who is known as the "Father of Bluegrass," not Scruggs. And just before Monroe went to the Grand Ole Opry, in 1939, he was performing regularly for a live 15-minute show called Mountain Music Time on WWNC, in Asheville, North Carolina.