An old tradition has a voice in the Arkansas Ozarks, where Sacred Harp, a hymnal for shape-note singing that has become known ...

In the 1840s, the banks would have been crowded with wharves, the nearby Navy Yard bustling with industry. The District was the “borderland” of Shane’s subtitle, a cauldron-like crossroads ...

An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...

Columbus in the mid-1840s was simply not a place most people came to most of the time. It was the capital city of a state located in what was then called "The West." ...

The Summerville Museum will host a historical lecture on Saturday, July 20, that explores the town's early roots, tracing its ...

Ireland's population has gone above 5 million people for the first time since the Great Famine, census figures show. After decades of continuous decline in the Irish population since 1841, it is ...

The abortion provider Planned Parenthood will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin in the wake of a court ruling that ruled against a putative 1840s-era ban on those procedures.