The ceremonial county of Berkshire is smaller than the historic county of Berkshire; a large portion of the area was absorbed ...

After attending Saint Augustine’s and Shaw universities in Raleigh ... a town built after the Civil War by former enslaved and free Black men and women. It had fallen into disrepair and was ...

Being able to casually mention you are related to a royal is a dinner party conversation showstopper that most people would love to have.

Steven Shaw tells of the Milwaukee Fire ... two hook and ladder companies and a hose company in 1857. The Civil War drew many of the department’s members into the Union Army.

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

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

Military Road in Worcester, off Salisbury Street, not far from Park Avenue, takes its name from the school created by Worcester educator Caleb B. Metcalf.

A half-century before it became a residential street, it was a training ground for Civil War soldiers ... under the guidance of Joseph Alden Shaw. It closed for good in 1912, with the land ...

They too fear that Israel would never allow the Palestinians to return, and that a mass influx of Palestinian refugees would once again destabilize the region, as it did in the decades after 1948, ...

Before the day’s end, approximately 1,420 soldiers lay dead, and over 5,000 wounded filled every house, barn and church in the area. This oft-forgotten battle decided Kentucky’s fate during the Civil ...

Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said he will greenlight President Trump’s request for a $1 billion arms sale to Israel when he is ...