Free blacks and fugitive slaves flocked to the great cities of the North, and Philadelphia shone among them as a haven. With the passage of the country's first gradual abolition act, Philadelphia ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement ... 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina to work on rice plantations.

Woodard says New France is among the most liberal places in North America. New France is focused around New Orleans in Louisiana as well as the Canadian province of Quebec. First Nation ...

A look at an inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations high school students ... with motherhood after giving birth to the son of an American soldier. A Mi'gMaq teen plots revenge on the ...

The Netherlands considers the first three islands to be autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. However, they are not recognized internationally as separate countries and they do ...

The Census data also estimates that more than 4.4 million of the nation's 15.8 million veterans are 75 years old or older.

Donald Trump has won victory in the race for the presidency of the United States, gaining a historic second term. He passed ...

These ceremonial and burial mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America. It's clear the people ...

A U.S. historian's book on North America's Indigenous history, “Native Nations: A Millennium in North America,” has won the ...

Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Nations ... development for America and the western world than it is for ...

As the presidential race heats up toward Election Day, eyes turn to North Carolina as it plays a significant role in the upcoming election.

A closer look at what has happened in the wake of an inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations high school ... through the perspectives of Native American families, Native journalists ...