On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

The U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall Collection contains 100 sculptures: two luminaries from each state. They include many ...

In 1680 in the Southwest, Po'pay and his followers sought political independence and religious freedom, issues central to ...

Colonial Williamsburg, the country’s largest living history museum, has been bringing to life the Founding Fathers and reenacting some of America’s defining origin moments through costumed ...

For most of the early decades of U.S. history, the styles of homes built in this country were inspired by European architecture such as Greek Revival, Italianate, French Second Empire, Tudor Revival, ...

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction at Colonial Williamsburg. On October 10, 1994, two Black men and two Black women were led up the steps and onto the porch of an 18th-century tavern.

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...