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

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussed the size and demographics of the United States in the 1840s and how innovations such as the railroad and telegraph impacted the country.

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 ...

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

Life was difficult for Sarah, a free black woman working as the single servant in a middle-class family in 1840s Baltimore. Long before the common use of refrigeration or even electricity, Sarah wo… ...

Pope Leo XIV, who is the first American pope in history, has lineage among “free people of color” in the U.S. dating back to at least the 1840s, a genealogist told Forbes.