Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th ...

Procession kicks off from Boston City Hall Plaza at 9 a.m. and meanders to the Old State House for the annual reading of the ...

Swimming in the Seine has been illegal since 1923, with a few exceptions, due to pollution and risks posed by river ...

The American Cinematheque is launching the latest edition of its 70mm festival this week and it is (again) such a warm ...

The Fourth of July is Americana at its core: parades and cookouts and cold beer and, of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics ...

Gene Bartow, Sylvester Croom, Alice Coachman Davis, Mike Donahue, Pat Dye, Rowdy Gaines, John Heisman, Wendell Hudson, Wilbur ...

By this Declaration, Americans asserted their unwillingness to be serfs or vassals to an unaccountable ruler, but rather as ...

For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists are getting ready to take a refreshing dip in the Seine ...

Kirstin Gulling is making good on a dream she had as a law student in the early 1990s: owning a bookstore. The former lawyer ...

General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, ...

A Queens family deeply rooted in their church is being torn apart, a quarter century after Maria and her husband came to America to flee mob violence targeting Christians and ethnic Chinese in ...