The phrase was reportedly first used 250 years ago Sunday by lawyer and legislator Patrick Henry to persuade Virginia ...

For the third straight season, Philadelphia won't have a men's college basketball team representing the city during March ...

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

Fine Linens, Silver, Blown Glass, Ceramics, Candles, Furniture and Textiles Many of the things that fill our houses today also filled the homes of colonial Rhode Islanders, except in their case, they ...

Global warming and sustainability ‘should form a more central part of school lessons’ says equalities think tank ...

After completing quarantine, 560 Doukhobors rented a 1,334-acre farm from the British colonial authorities in ... In April 1899, with the help of English Quakers and Tolstoyans – followers ...

has in her possession a letter written by Cotton Mather, one of the first Colonial Governors of Massachusetts, in which he vigorously excoriates the Quakers and proposes a plan by which their ...

Described as "a representative of the Quakers who established Lancaster ... James Logan and other leaders of Colonial Pennsylvania. A book by Teri Kanefield noted that Wright "probably was the ...

The site is an homage to the early colonial history of the First State ... who purchased the land from Quaker settlers and established the Woodlawn Trustees. Longwood update: One year later ...

it seems she could not surmount her colonial bias and declined to compensate him for the map, citing the gifts she had already brought to his family.) Mary was from an upper-middle-class American ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...