Harvard University has agreed to turn over 175-year-old photographs of enslaved people to a museum in South Carolina, ending ...

The lost colony of Roanoke, settled in the late 1500s, mysteriously vanished without a trace. What happened to these early American colonists remains one of history's greatest unsolved mysteries.

On the night of June 5, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History will come alive with squid lights, video projections, ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — A pack of veterinarians clambered over hefty metal crates on Tuesday morning, loading them one by one ...

Essex’s antique scene isn’t just good—it’s the kind of good that makes people drive across state lines with empty trunks and ...

That’s Essex, Connecticut for you – a postcard-perfect town where the Connecticut River meets New England charm, and where ...

This map shows life expectancy in the different counties throughout the USA — looks like the Upper Midwest is a good place to go if you want to live a while: 2.This chart shows how much money one ...

HAMPTON, Va. – At the dawn of Colonial America, two families lived in the same household, maybe under the same roof. One was white, one black. One was from England, one from Africa.

The so-called Black Boys ... delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies assembled in Philadelphia's Carpenters Hall to define America's grievances, clarify the constitutional relationship between ...

On a scraggly rock outpost in eastern Virginia 400 years ago, a ship came to Fort Monroe with colonial ... white experience, ignoring that many of its historic residents enslaved black people.