By Edward Adjei FRIMPONG Ghana’s coastline bears powerful footprints of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, marked by historic sites such as Cape Coast Castle, Elmina Castle and the Slave River at Assin ...

Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

Lake effect snow is an amazing example of how nature’s systems interact in complex and interesting ways. It can turn a calm ...

Yet with centuries of archeological artifacts and one cemetery visible on Mississippi River maps from the 1800s, independent ...

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...

'The Legacy of Black Horsemen' tells the story of the jockeys and trainers in the 1800s who helped establish the Thoroughbred industry. The Legacy of Black Horsemen, an hour-long historical ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

A chance encounter with cutting-edge technology and an old map sparked a journey to uncover the forgotten lives of ...

The Naperville Historical Preservation Commission will hear a proposal Thursday to make First Congregational Church a city ...

Work is well underway to make a part of Liverpool's historic docklands that has been inaccessible to the public for more than ...

Oregon-raised historian Marc James Carpenter’s book reveals how misunderstood former Governor Joseph Lane’s legacy was even ...