History

An effort to remove the statue resulted in pushback, and a conversation about how to add historical context.

Hugh B. Price’s family den located inside of his tastefully decorated colonial style home in New Rochelle, New York, is filled with family photographs that captured special moments ranging from birthday parties, graduation ceremonies and weddings.

In the 1930s, runner Tarzan Brown twice won the Boston Marathon – and carried the Narragansett tribe’s name out of obscurity and onto a global stage. “He was like an unsung hero for a long time,” his granddaughter says. “It’s just good to see him get the recognition he deserves.”

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous slavery. As colonial powers took over Native land, white settlers were enslaving Native people. Some worked in New England. Others were kidnapped and shipped to an isolated tropical island. For generations, a lost tribe in Bermuda wondered about its past. Centuries later, they’ve reconnected with family — in New England.

When Erin Moulton learned what really happened to her great-aunt, she couldn't ignore the echoes of today's fights over reproductive rights.

The "Abolition Acre" self-guided walking tour was recently established by the nonprofit Beacon Hill Scholars to raise awareness about the city's anti-slavery movement.

Court documents from the trial of one of New Hampshire’s alleged historical witches is on public display for American Archives Month.

Historian Carl R. Byron recalls the highs and lows of the building of the Hoosac Tunnel. When it was complete, it was the longest tunnel in North America.

For nearly two decades, Charlie Farrell has been on a singular quest: to find, photograph, and inventory every school in Vermont that ever was — at least, if a record exists of it.

Matinicus is a remote island in the outer reaches of Penobscot Bay and lies 20 miles off the coast. But that didn't deter a professional theater company from staging a production there this summer. The history on which the play is based is well-known to many of the islanders. In fact, it's a story about one of their own.