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 ...

At the heart of the film is not only the brothers’ decision to enter seminary, but the family culture that made those ...

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

Communal rituals of giving thanks have a longer history in North America, and it was only around the turn of the 20th century ...

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, ...