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"Robert Kennedy Jr., who is as dangerous as any of President Trump’s cabinet appointments AND noticeably silent on anything ...
Yale was a governor and president of the East India Company, which was directly involved in the trafficking of enslaved people. Yale made his first donation in 1813, and in 1845 the college was ...
The show, which has dealt largely with the so-called 400 Club and the white elites of Fifth Avenue society in New York, ...
The historic '10 Million Names' project is working to identify every individual enslaved before 1865 in the present-day United States.
Councillor Catherine Walsh’s last act as Mayor was a time-honoured tradition and one with a bit of pomp and ceremony. The Labour councillor donned the mayoral robes and chains one last time to honour ...
Make the trip to Gordonsville and you might stay forever.
This feature is written by Rockbridge Historical Society Executive Director Eric Wilson, describing the RHS Museum exhibit ...
Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...
Patrick Henry will never be forgotten — “Liberty or Death” ensures that — but he’s less remembered than his peers who became president, partly because he never served in that office, and also because ...
BALTIMORE — A significant letter written by founding father Thomas Jefferson sold Friday for the asking price of $90,000 and will return to Maryland, the state where it was penned 242 years ago ...
Thomas Jefferson, a Virginian, a slave-owner and a wordsmith, drafted the Declaration of Independence apparently in isolation in a rented room in Philadelphia in June 1776.
The occasion coincided with Florida getting ready to celebrate 249 years of America, just ahead of the Fourth of July.