New Jersey's governor's race this year, one of just two along with Virginia, is emerging as a proving ground for Democrats ...

The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated novelist Jane Austen. But is she really the “first” great English female author?

When Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States at the age of 47, the former Illinois senator made history ...

Camp Nelson National Monument lost 25 percent of staff: an administrator, a park ranger, and an archeologist.  These former ...

The cemetery website unpublished links to lists of notable graves, walking tours and other material about Black, Hispanic and ...

More than a third of books banned last year featured fictional characters or real person of color, a new analysis from PEN ...

You may recognise that name, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you don’t. Gladstone was perhaps the definitive British statesman ...

The Department of Homeland Security claimed that Columbia University anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil “led activities ...

Jonathan Larson, the cheerily boyish composer of “Rent,” died in 1993 at the age of 35 and thus “The Jonathan Larson Project, ...

An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in ...

He previously graduated from the Lebanese American University in Beirut with a computer science degree and worked at the ...