In February of 1976, by Executive Action, President Ford proclaimed Black History Month as a national period of recognition ...

I agreed with this idea for a while, especially because I never knew my immigrant ancestors. As time went on, I felt more skeptical about this notion, considering that the city I grew up in — ...

During the year of the 250th anniversary of American independence, Paul Meany reflects on how the American Declaration ultimately inspired Irish independence.

One of the best places to see the city for the first time is from a towering suite at The Four Seasons, Embarcadero, a grand hotel with stylish modern suites (the bathrooms are sumptuous as the main ...

Ours is a history in which robber barons used the promise of belonging to splinter the poor into warring factions. Sound ...

Instead of censorship, we have an abundance of distortion, lies and denial, as history, or what purports to be history, is ...

Lowell, Massachusetts, has turned 200! Over the birthday year, after nearly 33 years of teaching history at UMass Lowell, I ...

Paul Mescal, Chris Pratt, Lee Byung-hun, Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson feature in a quartet of movies released in the week ...

Noted Black scholar and historian Carter G. Woodson, known as the Father of Black History, was born in 1875 to former slaves.