Recent Good News

On June 19, 1865, two months after the U.S. Civil War ended, Union Gen. Gordon Granger walked onto the balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and announced to the people of the state that “all slaves are free.”

Emancipation Days — like Juneteenth in Texas — are not what many people think, because emancipation did not do what most of us think it did.

Hank and John Green have launched a tea brand under their Good Store platform, aiming to fund research and prevention efforts for the world's deadliest disease.

Nervous. Concerned. Worried. Wary. Unprepared. This is how middle and high school teachers have told me they have felt over the past few years when it comes to teaching the troublesome topic of slavery.

A new research suggests sea cucumber repopulation could play an important role in protecting and revitalizing another type of endangered marine organism: corals.

For nearly a century, a substantial portion of America’s iconic yellow school buses have been manufactured at a factory in Fort Valley, a town of 9,000 people surrounded by peach and pecan orchards in central Georgia.

Despite dads’ rising participation in child care and their importance in the lives of their kids, there is surprisingly little research about how fatherhood affects men.

When fathers are caregivers — when they provide emotional support and act affectionately toward their kids — the effects go well beyond growth, development, good health, and solid grades.

Your weekly roundup of the best good news worth celebrating...

In Massachusetts, the onetime cranberry capital of the world, former bogs are transforming into thriving, carbon-storing swamps.