The Colored Orphan Asylum is under siege. A cauldron of resentment, anti-authority, and racial tensions rise as the city ...

A Q&A with author Russell Shorto on the early colonial history of New Amsterdam in the lead-up to a confrontation with the ...

Former U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel of New York died Monday at age 94 after the Democratic retired from Congress in ... a noted Korean War hero and civil rights activist, was born on June 11, ...

Civil War veteran George Thomas Leach Sr. will receive a gravestone at North Burial Ground in Providence over 130 years after his burial. A ceremony with a military salute and remarks from John ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old shape-note American folk ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, ... Waterloo, New York, began a formal observance on May 5, 1866, and was later proclaimed to be the holiday’s birthplace.

Jack and Betty, the first two enslaved people believed to have resided in New Paltz, will be honored with new Witness Stones ...

Former New York City Congressman Charlie Rangel, a fixture on Capitol Hill and Democratic power player for nearly half a century, died Monday. He was 94. Rangel, 94, was a Harlem political ...

When the civil war began in Sudan, Shiraz Youssef couldn’t hear the explosions, the gunfire or the screams. The 22-year-old from Khartoum lost her hearing when she was very young. But the ...

Russian oligarchs use the offshore system to shield their luxury assets. The Trump administration is ending an effort to find and seize them.

The momentum was with Mr. Trump and his MAGA campaign, and its goal was, in effect, to reverse the gains of the ’60s — to undo civil rights, sexual tolerance, environmental protection, campus ...