This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing.

Discover Bennett Place in North Carolina, where the Civil War ended and history comes alive on the site of the largest Confederate surrender.

The camera catches Buck Meek hanging onto a fence, illuminating the boundary between him and total darkness, which even his black suit seems to be blending into. On the cover of his new album The ...