Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Emma Lazarus had an overriding faith that supporting immigrants would lead to untold improvements across the nation and ...

As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

When George Washington, from Virginia, arrived in Cambridge 250 years ago, one of the first things he did was talk to his ...

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Millions of protesters have denounced President Donald Trump as a would-be autocrat and marched under the banner “No Kings.” ...

Unrestricted birthright citizenship — the characteristically New World notion that being born on a country’s soil is enough ...

The New Mexico-based artist Maja Ruznic presents a vivid and shamanistic response to her state's fraught history.

A groundbreaking study reveals that leprosy was present in the Americas thousands of years ago, challenging the belief that ...

From Shakespeare’s plays to William Wordsworth’s poetry to J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy realms, Britain’s lush green forests are ...

Leprosy’s tale stretches from 5,000-year-old skeletons in Eurasia to a startling 4,000-year-old case in Chile, revealing that ...