On March 5, 1770, Matthew Kilroy shot Samuel Gray to death during the Boston Massacre. Kilroy had fought with Gray earlier, and...
At 4 AM on a warm spring day, a stagecoach rumbled from the White House carrying the outgoing president of the United...
After decades of neglect the common burial grounds of slaves are now being documented, honored and preserved from New York to Mississippi...
Mary Antin wrote a poem praising George Washington just a few years after she arrived in Boston a poor, 13-year-old Russian Jew...
Every election year, local and state election administrators across the country utter a prayer: “Please God, don’t let it be close!” Yet,...
On Aug. 1, 1761, three teenaged Mohawk boys arrived on horseback at Moor’s Charity School in Lebanon (now Columbia), Conn. Two, Nickus...