A new interactive map details the pensions awarded by the American government to Irish soldiers who fought in some of that ...

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 ...

Why billionaires and luxury travelers choose Newport, Rhode Island: Inside the mansions, private clubs, real estate and social circles that define America’s original 1%.

As America approaches its 250th birthday, a reflection on its past reveals a pattern of expanding or shrinking freedom and ...

Olaudah Equiano's harrowing first-person account of being captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic in horrific conditions aboard a slave ship, and sold into slavery in colonial America.

The gap between the economies of former colonies and their colonisers owes much to the policies of post-colonial governments ...

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

Some of the Nationwide programmes over the past year have been a reminder of how much religion has shaped life in Ireland - ...