As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

They who while living had mingled their interests, fortunes, counsels, nay rather souls,” reads their tombstone, “might in ...

From George Washington to Robert E. Lee, Arlington's history is as complicated as our own. Here's how it became the hallowed ...

Three quarters of mountain refuges in the Vallée des Belleville in Savoie are run by women – Rachel Ifans laces up her hiking ...

For the rest of this year, the historical society is presenting an exhibition titled, "Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public ...

Marion Harland and Christine Herrick were a mother-daughter duo. Marion Harland was actually a very famous writer in the late ...

Several years ago, two African American women, Elaine Buck and Beverly Mills, decided to do some research on the history of ...

Since Dobbs, the rhetoric around personhood has become much more extreme—for example, so-called abortion abolitionists ...

One of the most overlooked authors in the list, Mary Shelley is responisble for writing the first-ever science fiction story. The iconic work was inspired by debates on life and electricity. It asks ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?