The colorful wall paintings adorn Boston's Old North Church, which played a crucial role during Paul Revere's famed 1775 midnight ride ...

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Hear from author Michelle Duster about her great-grandmother Ida B. Wells’ lifelong fight for equality. Writer and activist ...

When the UN declared 1975 to be International Women’s Year, President Ford signed an executive order responding to the ...

A beloved matriarch, 907F lived to be 11 years old, which is much longer than the average lifespan for gray wolves and a rare feat, even for those in the protected area of Yellowstone ...

A new exhibition spotlights the ways in which cultures around the world have sought answers in the face of uncertainty ...

Throughout her years of obscurity, Butler rose daily to write before menial jobs as a potato chip inspector, dishwasher and ...

Descendants of people enslaved at the site are grappling with its complicated history while also honoring the region's rich ...

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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

The 2,000-year-old military general figurine is the tenth of its kind to be excavated from the emperor Qin Shi Huang's tomb, ...

Two studies came to a similar conclusion, highlighting a single, sustained event of mixing DNA. The findings could impact our ...