Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

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Paige Williams reports from Gary, Indiana. Plus: we’d never had a king until this week; the first month of Trump; and “The ...

English writer and humorist P.G. "Plum" Wodehouse lived in the United States for more than 30 years before his death in 1975.

In 1850, a historic contract recorded in Cape Girardeau reveals the gold rush journey of John P. Edinger and others to California.

I'm Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute. Early settlers found a lot to like once they crossed the Appalachians and ...

Once, there stood a grand house, built on fertile land, its gardens yielding abundant harvests and its pastures sustaining livestock. Over time, as with all homes, it required repairs — leaky roofs, ...