For elementary school teacher, Monique Duncan, writing a book illustrating the remarkable ways enslaved Africans used hair styles to guide their way to freedom, was a dream come true.

"The Space She Keeps" honors the women who lived and worked at Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House in Buffalo.

The list highlights individuals and couples who made significant contributions to various sectors, including business, ...

Turn back the clock and discover 900 years of women’s history, have your spine well and truly tingled by a terrifying sci-fi ...

In “The Revolutionary Self,” the historian Lynn Hunt explores the way 18th-century culture transformed our sense of power in ...

Amid claims that the killer in one of history’s most chilling crime mysteries has finally been unveiled, here’s a closer look ...

By the 1800s, human activities were already dramatically increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Burning more and more fossil fuels – coal and eventually oil and gas – added an ...

In the Scandalous Letters of V and J, Victor and Julie/Julien, meet and become close as inmates of a boarding house in 1823 ...

A look at the lives of Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward, the first Black female doctor in New York, and her sister Sarah J. S ...

Leader’s yearlong examination of notable people, institutions and key moments in Lexington’s history focuses on an early suffragist and supporter of women’s rights -- Laura Clay.

A proposal to bring an organic supermarket, 93 apartments, 25 townhouses and eventually a restaurant, assisted living center ...

Early in Reconstruction, a number of important leaders emerged ... The son of Arkansas' largest planter and an enslaved woman named Cynthia, Mason received an education at Oberlin College in ...