In the annals of Revolutionary War soldiers, Massachusetts was full of notable figures. But there were none quite like ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — Chester County residents and history enthusiasts are invited to a fascinating public talk on the county’s ...

Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Gillespie resettled in Milwaukee by the mid-1850s and challenged local officials who ...

Each state honors two notable people in their history by donating statues to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed replacing the bronze ...

March is Women’s History Month—a time to recognize the contributions of women past and present. Across Warren County, women ...

Watch 'Abbott Elementary' star Sheryl Lee Ralph discover her ancestor was a free Black man in the mid 1800s on an exclusive ...

From 1870 to 1872, thanks to the influence of Chloe Merrick Reed, the number of public schools students increased from 7,500 ...

Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...

From the temperance and abolitionist movements of the 19th Century to the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War era of the 1960s to the Black Lives Matter campa ...

Suzanne Cope, a NYU professor, has spent the last decade studying revolutionary groups, including anti-fascist women in Italy ...

When history records the work of those who were abolitionists, the participation and contributions of free people of color is ...

As with today’s civil terrorists, too, their rage was fueled by opposition to what they saw as an unjust war—in their case, Vietnam. The group soon escalated to bombing government buildings and ...