Rochester's growth, abolitionist networks and Quaker activism helped make the region a key center of the women's rights ...

While women in New Jersey had few rights, they stepped up during the Revolution, caring for troops, loading cannon in battle, ...

In 1776, Cherokee leaders looked for ways to navigate a foreboding future. Nanyehi, a.k.a. Nancy Ward, is venerated and ...

Sure, we know things are different than they were 250 years ago ... but wait till you see how different in a head-to-head ...

In the late 17th century, colonists in North America faced a new problem: how to process maize, a New World staple, using mills designed for softer European grains. Sybilla Righton Masters, a ...

As Baltimore's postmaster and printer to the Continental Congress, Mary Katharine Goddard produced the first official copy of ...

WASHINGTON — About 40 of us commoners are hanging around Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, waiting for the King of ...

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order ...

An Indiana woman who disappeared in February while traveling in Mexico with her seven children has been found dead, her family said, but her children are safe. Makala Pendley, 30, and her children ...

Vivianne Petit Frere's brightly painted Haitian restaurant sits blocks from the towering U.S. border wall in Tijuana. Called ...

With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence right around the corner, it seems that all parts of the country ...

Lydia Darragh was a pacifist and already led a very busy life in her adopted city of Philadelphia where she worked as a ...