The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and enabled enslaved people to escape as stowaways in below-deck hideaways.

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Kate Masur, the John D. MacArthur Chair and Professor of History at Northwestern University, delivered the 2025 Fulton ...

The group, founded by Mira Lloyd Dock and other prominent women in 1882, will host concerts as part of Artsfest on Memorial ...

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Journey through the Berkshires, a rural idyll in western Massachusetts where small-town bookstores, such as The Bookstore and ...

Pope Leo XIV’s first words as pope were a call for peace, echoing the legacy of his predecessors. Here's a look at their ...

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Women artists are out there and not so difficult to find, but once we find them, we have to accept the fact that the art ...

"Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" is the first Costume Institute exhibit to focus exclusively on Black designers, and the ...

During the 19th and 20th centuries, female reformers promoted the plantings for charity and to spur urban renewal. Then they ...