Eggs, oil and vinegar come together to form a contested condiment: Mayonnaise, long thought to have been improvised by an ...

The Rev. Diane Badger, the administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts who oversees the archive, teamed up ...

The Eastern PA Homestead Festival is taking place for the first time this weekend at the Kutztown Fairgrounds.

Both Colonial Williamsburg & the college’s archaeological teams discovered new finds related to the original Bray School.

Take heart in this impression. A century ago, when adolescent psychology first emerged as a field of study, that was exactly ...

Organizers of the event donned 18th century-style costumes — and drew what they said are similarities between the actions of King George III and President Trump’s policies.

He concluded, he later wrote, that the troops were “ exceeding dirty & nasty people ” led by indifferent officers with an “ ...

Le Prince de Conty, a French ship trading with Asia, sank off the coast of Brittany in 1746. The shipwreck was first ...

Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

A 1699 letter from an enslaved boy portrayed in a 17th-century painting sheds light on Black identity and agency in early ...

But a historic house about 100 miles west, in the town of Hadley, Mass., is among the many locations where people lived and labored — and played lesser known roles leading up to 1776.