When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...

Stendhal’s “The Charterhouse of Parma” lays out thousands of rules and stratagems for elites trying to stay in the good graces of a powerful and capricious ruler.

Washington Black is about an 11-year-old boy born on a Barbados sugar plantation around 200 years ago, but one of its stars ...

A Mount Vernon city council hopeful says in a new lawsuit that the voter rolls are filled with errors — but election ...

The IXL Historical Museum in Hermansville has been awarded $50,000 as a part of the first round of the America250MI History ...

The boy “suddenly recovered" after a physician invoked a 19th century Spanish priest in prayer, church officials announced.

The church at 80 South Market St. dates back to the 19th century. The San Jose cathedral is designated as California Historic ...

An unknown 19th-century portrait of UMD medical school founder has been discovered in a former Baltimore seafood restaurant’s closet.

Rhode Islanders are celebrating Pope Leo XIV's declaration that the healing of a baby born in their state back in 2007 was ...

Designer Nigel Brooke spent thousands to restore a vintage Metropolitan Railway carriage from 1895, which now serves as a ...

The soul and body of railroad brakeman Will “Wid” Somers were, in the words of the Allen County Democrat, “uncoupled” in December 1879.

The exhibition looks at the 30 years following that landmark event for the nation through the lens of food." ...