A sampling of other Declaration of Independence signers who served in the Continental Congress in York between Sept. 30, 1777, and June 28, 1778.

The Tipperaryman's adventures as a grandee at large in South America involved everything from coca collection to debt ...

News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...

For those looking to find out about New England ancestors who came over on other ships during this period, the best source of ...

On June 23, 1775, Londoners focused on enjoying a regatta, not fretting about a brewing rebellion.

The Pulaski Banner stands out not only for its striking design but for the extraordinary story it shares about the international roots of America’s fight for freedom.

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

These antique maps showed how people saw the world. What did they get right? HISTORY & CULTURE. 75 years later, survivors of India’s violent partition return home—virtually.

What if the map of North America looked very different? 🗺️🇫🇷 In 1763, France lost big in the Seven Years’ War — but what if it hadn’t? This alternate history explores how a French victory could’ve ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's Juneteenth, birthdays for Gallery 263 and “Rocky Horror ...

From the signature of the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Spanish Louisiana occupied a strategic place in the continental game of chess in Northern America, at the heart of opposing dynamics. In order to ...