Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

And the grandmother who wouldn’t let him get away with it.

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?

The answers are just as important as the stories that our history books tell.

In Charleston, a monument to John C. Calhoun squares off against its symbolic rival, the steeple of Emanuel A.M.E. Church, where a white supremacist killed nine.