As a boy on the dairy farm I grew up on, barn swallows were as much a part of the farmyard and buildings as the livestock ...

Unlike in Europe, native rulers had little formal authority; they had to persuade others to follow their ideas.

The history of the Greater Susquehanna Valley cannot be told without the Native Americans who lived, traveled and traded ...

On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Boston’s Old North Church, founded in 1723.

Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History Emeritus and specialist in Latin American history Allen Wells has spent a couple of ...

A hastily drafted commencement address announced a plan that would revitalize Western Europe after World War II and leave a ...

They fired muskets. They built redoubts. In 1775 the once disparate colonies took up arms against British domination.

From the first musket shots to the Boston Tea Party, Massachusetts' central role in sparking the American Revolution is being ...

From owning a cat to speaking your mind, these everyday behaviors were sometimes linked to witchcraft accusations during the ...

When George Washington’s army abandoned Fort Lee in November 1776, its survival depended on reaching the crossing at New ...

Discover how ancient DNA analysis connected 1.3 million Americans to Maryland's early settlers, revealing lost identities ...

As Senegal’s former president Abdoulaye Wade turns 100 on Friday, RFI looks back on the life of a man whose century has ...