A fast-growing faction called the Abolitionists is taking control of Oklahoma's Republican Party, pushing to criminalize ...

A double whammy hit young Edwin Coppoc of Winona in early 1842. His father died and because his mother was unable to care for ...

An artist and educator who is a relative of 19th-century William Whipper, a Lancaster County native who was a key figure in ...

Mother's Day falls on May 10 in 2026. Here's how the holiday began and why it's celebrated on a Sunday.

The steam locomotive chugged its way toward Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Aug. 15, 1859. On board was an impatient young ...

Republican-American calendar for Saturday, May 9, includes a touch-a-truck event at CT State Northwestern in Winsted.

Gather Place has announced the launch of its Abolitionist Trail Hub in celebration of America’s 250th Anniversary, as part of ...

Philadelphia’s Story. The film, spearheaded by Philadelphian Oliver St. Clair Franklin, explores the history of Black ...

The most analytically rigorous science of Thoreau’s life culminated with his 1859 research trip to the library stacks of Harvard College. At the time, he was investigating how the Concord River ...

Long Island Sound when the USS Washington captured the “slave” schooner La Amistad off Montauk. The next two years saw trials, publicity, complex legal wrangling, and a gut-checking of conscience for ...