A new Ken Burns documentary highlights Rhode Island's significant contributions to the American Revolution. Key figures like ...

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

Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who ...

If history is a guide, America’s 250th birthday will feel more like 1926 than 1976. The same currents are visible: immigrants from historically Catholic nations cast as threats, racism on the rise, ...

This National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, my Administration renews our commitment to end the evil of human trafficking, restore law ...

Msgr. Paul V. Garrity Francisco De Vittoria was a Spanish 9 year old when Columbus arrived in the New World. He became a Dominican priest, theologian, and philosopher. The School of Salamanca, which ...

Dancing with the Stars is set to return with a dramatic twist on Sunday night with a series-first event. For the first time ...

It's been five years since the January 6th, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and now some New York State lawmakers are trying ...

Today in History for Jan. 13: In 1691, Englishman George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, died. In 1695, satirist Jonathan Swift, author of "Gulliver's Travels," was ordained an ...

Dancing With The Stars has announced a dramatic twist with the show's earliest ever series elimination set to cause ...