In 1587, a group of English settlers established the Roanoke Colony on an island between what is now North Carolina and the ...

Kevin Skarupa says East Coast earthquakes are typically felt across a larger area than West Coast ones, despite the fact that ...

Their whereabouts baffled historians for centuries until 2012 when experts with the British Museum analyzed the 400-year-old ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the ...

The taunting post was just one in a recent string of comments from Trump suggesting that the United States annex Canada and ...

By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Jonathan Edwards, one of Northampton’s most famous residents, was a revolutionary preacher ...

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Australia’s third governor had children by his wife and mistress. Now their descendants meet for the first time to heal old ...

There are two verses to Advance Australia Fair, but do you know the second? Probably not. It's in our citizenship booklet, Our Common <a ta ...

British colonies (Georgia did not attend) sent representatives to the first Continental Congress, in Philadelphia, to respond to Parliament passing the Intolerable Acts, punishing Boston for the tea ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions, in which leaders in the now-defunct Fincastle County ...