Library houses replica Declarations of Independence, while local town hall is modeled on a colonial predecessor ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Brown’s Town history reveals a complex legacy shaped by an Irish pro-slavery planter, a Baptist slave preacher, and a Scottish missionary and explorer.

The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed. A mural of the Clotilda adorns a concrete embankment in Africatown, a ...

These first Africans in Virginia were not the first Africans in North America, but they were a significant part of the ever changing Atlantic world during the colonial era. Their travels and ...

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Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur ...

They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, and kept people apart. I grew up in a different historic black township in ...

FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders ...

Road improvements in Lee County, Florida, have spurred retail growth and transformed commercial real estate. Key projects over the years have included the Gulf Coast Town Center, the Forum area ...