Despite their many differences, the North American colonies eventually came together as one country – the United States of ...

Visit historic sites in the original 13 colonies of the U.S. to hear about colonizers, Indigenous people, enslaved people, and overshadowed women. Here are historic road trips on the east coast to ...

While Black Wall Streets were business hubs within larger cities, Freedom Colonies were rural, self-sufficient Black settlements built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. These ...

In many historic towns, we look at old buildings and imagine what life might have been like. In Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, imagination gets a little help. Here, the 18th century doesn’t sit ...

Independence National Historical Park hosts some of the nation’s preeminent places of history. But what was the area like before the park was established in 1949? Independence Hall sits now ...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the Hill ...