Four brothers who were as well-known in their day as the likes of Messi and Federer today. The latest instalment of our ...

In 1862, during America’s Civil War, the U.S. Congress and Department of the Navy began naming combat ships after the nation’s states. The USS Maine is named after America’s 23rd state. The over 324 ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

Knight’s latest “rip-roaring” show, “ House of Guinness ”, about the family behind the world-famous stout, is “hurling around ...

Image via Fleming Museum of Art The visit was almost more than artist Charles Heyde could have hoped for. One day in the early 1850s, Heyde was called upon at his Brooklyn painting studio by a pair of ...

Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, ...

In the early 1870s just about nobody in Allentown was more respected than banker William Blumer. But behind the scenes things ...

The sleepy village of Borley in Essex harbours a dark secret that has fascinated paranormal enthusiasts for generations.

Historical re-enactors brought names from the past to life at the Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Cemetery last weekend. The event, which involved re-enactors portraying some of the notables ...

Today in History for Oct. 26: In 1774, the American Congress invited Canada to join the 13 colonies opposing Britain. In 1813, a small force of British and Canadian soldiers defeated an advance party ...

Subscribers to the Cherokee Phoenix likely know the origins of the newspaper in Georgia and about its first editor, Elias ...