St. Augustine is one of the most haunted towns in America, thanks to a jail built by Henry Flagler in 1891. The Old Jail, as ...

SC Congressman Preston Brooks shocked nation when he caned Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. A new biography shows why the ...

With countries like Australia still debating whether or not the time has come to become a republic, what prompted tiny ...

They stand throughout the room, life-size and conspicuous, yet faceless. One plays a fiddle. Another holds a hammer. Others carry lanterns or babies. They are identified by name and a few dozen other ...

Jim Clyburn's new book, The First Eight, restores the lives of South Carolina's early Black congressmen and shows how their ...

Reparations activist Darrick Hamilton, who argues the U.S. economy is racist, joins NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s ...

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has rolled out a sweeping transition effort that includes more than 17 advisory ...

The bronze sculpture was created by North Shields-based artist Keith Barrett and it stands at the top of the Riverside ...

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the ...

But to millions of Indigenous Americans, the story of Thanksgiving is also closely intertwined with their history of invasion ...

… [S]outhern Indians too were divided in their feelings toward the Confederacy…. By the winter of 1861–62, a full-blown civil war was under way among the Indians, adding a further dimension to ...

A statue honoring a woman who escaped slavery in the U.S. has been unveiled in the Northern England town where she found her freedom.