The North Jersey home built by the founders of Scranton, Pennsylvania and home to an accomplished musician, on the market for $1.15 million.

Ellis’ dream of wresting power from the emperor was but one small moment in his boundary-breaking life. Eulogized as a ...

The government is larger today than it was back then, so there was less interest on the part of the oligarchs of the day to ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Names are an important part of what journalists do. Now the current presidential administration wants to change names of ...

Villanova University history professor Judith Giesberg has written a new book, "Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

It's been nearly half a century since he died in 1979, and yet no actor has wholly embodied the role of cinematic cowboy ...

Those born on this date are under the sign of Aquarius. They include: -- Civil War-era U.S. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in ...

Henry L. Marsh III, a civil rights lawyer and ... a century after the end of the Civil War, remained dominated by a conservative White business class. At the time, Richmond’s mayor was selected ...

Now marking the 175th anniversary of its founding, Christ Church leaders are eager to celebrate its history, build its ...