Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.

In Wisconsin, Biden’s narrow margin was strongly bolstered by Native voters in Menominee and Bayfield counties. Menominee ...

Mabel Walker Willebrandt came to Washington to enforce Prohibition. Her boss, the attorney general, openly flouted the ...

Today I Found Out shared the incredible story of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States.

President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving an annual, national holiday. But it was magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale ...

About 77 million Americans already have voted early, but Harris and Trump are pushing to turn out many millions more ...

Stories of spiritual entities, paranormal activity and creepy cryptids are passed through generations the world over, ...

The scary legends are many and varied. In Brazil, “Bárbara” haunts the picturesque Arco de Teles alleyway. In Indonesia, ...

Wilma Schesler remains the only woman ever killed in a labor action in Rhode Island history. On Thursday, Nov. 7, at 3 p.m., AFSCME and the state Labor History Society will dedicate a monument to her ...

Working with Othram Laboratories ... from the skull that suggested it was that of Esther Granger, a 17-year-old woman who died during childbirth in Merrillville, Indiana, in 1866.