What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution, writes Jane Borden in The Nation. The Pilgrims ...

The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.

The discovery began quietly with a librarian pausing upon an old photograph he’d looked upon dozens of times before. Now-retired Elizabethtown College archivist Peter DePuydt paused over a 1928 ...

Programs such as annual safety days in Ohio counties touted as ways to make connections within those communities.

Canada ranks 7th in agri-food influence, gene-edited pig resists swine fever, Asian longhorned tick a rising threat.

Cockerell began writing a conventional family history but eventually made it a purely archival project: The book is told entirely in excerpts taken from newspapers, diaries, books and letters, ...

The Americas region, which comprises 35 countries, has officially lost its measles-free status.1 It comes after a year that has seen 12 593 cases and 28 deaths from measles in the region. When Canada ...

People of all faiths need to hear an unfettered condemnation of the behavior of Christian-identifying people like Tommy ...

The fertile backcountry of rural Tennessee offers a vital lifeline to the Amish, a deeply traditional community living apart ...

Researchers have seen changes in the Amish community, particularly in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They said the Amish are ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move west, ...