Harriet Bell Hayden is believed to have helped hundreds of people fleeing slavery from her Beacon Hill residence ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

Many men in history are brought high by their ambitions, only to fall from their vices.  Louis Wigfall, an attorney, ...

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

What you do on New Year’s Day, you’ll be doing the rest of the year. Many have heard the adage, but less know the history ...

Step-by-step instructions for coming up with an engaging list of recommendations for things we should — or shouldn’t — read, watch, experience, eat or listen to. By Katherine Schulten If ...

All three ex-deputies were charged with second-degree murder in the June death of inmate Rolin ...

Although the native cultures of North America were non-literate, oral tradition and contact with the white people have ...

The Directors' Correspondence collection contains several letters from Rutherford Alcock, including one from July 1860 in which he anticipates the arrival of J.G. Veitch who he hopes will help him ...