"An official American Freedom Train Foundation recording." Notes on container. SUMMARY: Locomotive sounds, the official American Freedom Train theme song, and the ...

Ahead of the Grammys on Sunday, Samantha Ronson has remixed Toots and the Maytals‘ “Freedom Train” from their nominated album Got to be Tough. Ronson enlisted Pete Nappi for the project, releasing the ...

It was a Sunday in November 75 years ago. It was a cloudy, and cold day on Nov. 9, 1947. World War II had ended two years before, and some of the nation’s leaders were afraid the American population ...

Americans were a bit anxious about jobs, a looming presidential election, a crush of immigrants fleeing bad situations, racial injustices, violence, talk of creeping socialism, labor unrest, a fear of ...

Here’s a few of the items on display on the American Freedom Train, which was in Spokane for a four-day visit.

Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked Alex Rivera to fill in. Rivera is a Sundance award-winning filmmaker and a 2021 MacArthur fellow. His work focuses on ...

ENID, Okla. — An exhibit recounting the post-World War II-era Freedom Train is on display in Enid, 74 years after the train stopped here. “The Freedom Train: Across the Heart of America” exhibition ...

This story starts with William Coblenz, a government worker in Washington, D.C., who visited the National Archives during a lunch break in 1946, right after the Allies had won World War II. Seeing the ...

Many Americans of Generation X and older will recall the red, white, and blue American Freedom Train that was a centerpiece of America’s glorious Bicentennial celebration. But few know that the ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A new generation of civil rights advocates have joined onto an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day tradition of riding the Freedom Train in the Bay Area. "I think [King] was a ...