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 ...

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

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

A new statue honoring Mary Ann Macham, a woman who fled slavery in the U.S. and began a new life in North Shields in northern England, has been installed in the heart of the fishing town. The bronze ...

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 ...

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

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its ...

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

The Indian Woods historical marker at the intersection of St. Francis Road and U.S. Highway 17 in Bertie County is easily missed while cruising at 55 or 60 miles an hour. Located at the edge of a ...

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

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

"Dave the Potter" labored in the alkaline-glazed stoneware potteries of Edgefield, S.C., in the decades before and during the ...