One of contentious parts of the history of the American Civil War is the question of whether southern blacks served as ...

Efforts to open a separate school in a predominantly black section of Sheffield in the early 1900s led to a boilover of ...

Morton was a physician and naturalist who lived in Philadelphia from 1799 until the end of his life in 1851. A lecture he delivered to aspiring doctors at the Philadelphia Association for Medical ...

Wong said most are familiar with the tragic death of George Marshall Clark, who in 1861 became the city’s first lynching ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the ...

From agriculture to racial relations and politics, the Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 had far-reaching impacts.

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris go head-to-head at the ballot boxes across America today, ...

A mericans are headed to the polls today to cast their ballots in a crucial election. People are anxious, hopeful, and scared ...

A jigsaw is always a great gift, especially for puzzlers. Oprah loves the 500-piece ones because they’re challenging without ...

Although Virginia waited until the 1800s to impose anti-literacy laws ... The lab has been able to link some people to the ...

Black Americans on the New Hampshire Seacoast are strikingly illustrated in a trove of photos recently acquired by Historic ...