Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day or the Second Independence Day, celebrates Black freedom in the United States.

On a cool February morning in 1904, a spark ignited a fire in the heart of downtown Baltimore. Within hours, a raging inferno ...

Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was ...

The Tennessee State Museum’s latest temporary exhibition, "Photography in Tennessee: Early Studios and the Medium’s First Century," opens June 10. The show explores the origins and impact of ... more ...

The shaded hilltop near Pineville is more than a hundred miles from the sprawling campus of LSU in Baton Rouge. But this is where Louisiana State University began more than 160 years ago. “I’m an ...

An Ancient Christian tomb complex dating back 1,500 years was discovered by a contractor who was clearing rubble beneath a destroyed house in Syria's Idlib province.

Betsy Roddy’s family used to send a Father’s Day card each year to her great-grandmother, Sonora Dodd. The unusual practice ...

President Trump is sending tanks rolling through the streets of the capital not to honor service, but to celebrate power.

Historians are hoping to keep the military from destroying historic buildings and other artifacts from the World War II ...

Archaeologists recently announced the discovery of skeletons at Colonial Williamsburg – but the skeletons weren’t from the ...

We followed a 160-year-old Civil War map straight into the past—armed with metal detectors and a deep respect for history. Each beep brought us closer to uncovering relics left behind by soldiers and ...