The excavation of the Williamsburg Bray School has yielded hundreds of artifacts, providing a glimpse into the lives of Black ...

Burying futures usually involves burying the truths of history. Right now the Trump administration has been systematically attacking Black history. It’s set about purging Black historical ...

Here’s a look at the complex early history of abortion in the United States. There weren't any laws against abortion in the U.S. until the 19th century—and as those laws grew more restrictive ...

The history of gay pride is a long and hard-fought one. Recognizing and remembering this history is important for understanding how far the movement has come, how far is left to go, and how to ...

Barb Gustafson lives in Prince Albert, Sask. I recently went to The Bay, perhaps for the last time. The department store in my hometown closed long ago, and there were only two left in the ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...

1975: Turn-of-the-century themed Old Chicago amusement park/shopping center — the first enclosed one in the United States — opened in Bolingbrook. It went bankrupt and closed in March 1980. Amazon ...

“We all celebrated together,” he recalled in a 2016 oral history with the 1947 Partition Archive. “It was wonderful.” Muslim refugees sit on the roof of an overcrowded train near New Delhi ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

Jooney Woodward First light in London. At the top of Westminster Abbey’s northwest tower, Lee Robinson welcomes a new morning in a 1,000-year-old history by performing one of the building’s ...

At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King ...