By Trudy Reisner, Natick Historical Society Researcher Nestled just beyond Natick’s borders, in what is now Wellesley, stood ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal North Carolina and discovered a star-shaped symbol under a patch.

June 26, 2025 This Extravagant 19th-Century English Estate Just Hit the Market for $13.5 Million Chedington Court, a grand Jacobean Revival mansion in Dorset, offers 58 acres of landscaped grounds ...

(Reuters) -Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U ...

When Coal First Arrived, Americans Said ‘No Thanks’ Back in the 19th century, coal was the nation’s newfangled fuel source—and it faced the same resistance as wind and solar today ...

Does industrial concentration shape the life and death of cities? We identify settlements from historical maps of England and Wales (1790–1820), isolate exogenous variation in their late 19th-century ...

Colonizing Indigenous people—and exploiting their land and resources—has a long and brutal history.

At Smithills Estate near Bolton, the Mersey Forest (Cheshire and Merseyside's community forest), conservation charity Woodland Trust and the Environment Agency have spent the last decade restoring ...

It includes photos of three Baobab trees from St. Croix — the Grove Place baobab and two trees at Estate Bulter Bay on the northwest side of St. Croix. These trees are published in the book.