In 1617, a winter storm in Norway sparked the Finnmark witch trials, leading to the burning of 91 people at the stake. It was ...

250 years after Thomas Paine published 'Common Sense', what can we learn from the revolutionary work today?

British-born Thomas Paine helped inspire the 13 English colonies to declare independence and form the United States of ...

In January 1899, the American gunboat USS Wilmington set out on an expedition to Venezuela, steaming up the Orinoco River toward the country’s interior. On board was an American diplomat, Francis ...

Hollywood actors Meagan Good and Jonathan Majors have been granted Guinean citizenship, tracing their ancestry to the West ...

Cardiovascular disease risk may be attributed to factors beyond changes in estrogen among women undergoing the menopause ...

Area businesses, residents and advocates quickly took to social media, questioning whether a warming fire from a homeless person could have caused it. According to the incident report, fire marshals ...

Columbia barn at 1619 Mores Blvd. that had stood for more than a century. Area businesses, residents and advocates quickly took to social media, questioning whether a warming fire from a homeless ...

By surfacing records of enslaved people and engaging local residents, Philadelphia’s Stenton Museum is reexamining Quaker ...

It is entirely fitting that the US is so splintered on its semiquincentennial. Division, for the lion's share of its history, ...

Year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. Between now and July 4, I will write a periodic column on the ...

On the Caribbean island of St. John, the Windmill Bar sits atop what's known as Neptune's Lookout, on the site of an old ...