We normally celebrate Memorial Day with food, festivities and perhaps even a day at the beach, on the semi-official start of the summer season.

Folk memory disappears when a language is pushed close to extinction.

Although the fact is often forgotten, the American colonists were not the only people who faced a political crisis in the ...

A divided Exeter faced a defining moment in 1776, when local men were asked to declare where their loyalties lay.

In announcing a new $1.776 billion fund to compensate people the Trump administration says were victims of judicial "weaponization," the Justice Department said a 2011 legal settl ...

The Selangor Incident of 1871 – when HMS Rinaldo shelled Kuala Selangor – was more than a colonial skirmish.

One of the primary reasons behind the enactment of the IPC, and the codification of Indian law that began in earnest after ...

America’s outlaw era has always carried a strange mix of history, violence, folklore, and fascination. While the crimes ...

People across the country completed their census forms this week, sharing details about their lives, which languages they speak and — for those who got the long-form census — information about their ...