Rhode Island will celebrate the semiquincentennial with a special WaterFire lighting, but won't be getting a visit from the ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist issued a proclamation declaring January Muslim American Heritage Month. The state is home nearly 250,000 Muslims, including sizable populations in ...

Below are 25 expressions that have problematic origins.

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

The end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance across the Americas. This was part of California’s story.

The right wants to erase unpleasant history, while the left talks of nothing else. Is there a middle ground for American ...

New book cites Christianity as the springboard of the American Revolution, with God as the true founding father. Author ...

In 1680 in the Southwest, Po’pay and his followers sought political independence and religious freedom, issues central to ...

The Cornland School Museum embraces the experience that many children of the rural South — particularly African American ...

If this is the case, it means I share ancestry with Pope Leo XIV through my great-grandmother Eugenie Lemelle’s paternal ...

Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the ...