History has a way of bending the truth over time. Stories get twisted, facts become fiction, and suddenly everyone knows ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — The town of Bristol has a history dating back to 1680. However, not all of its past residents enjoyed the same freedoms celebrated in the now-iconic Fourth of July Parade.

Meet Laura Dabney, a wife, mother, grandmother and genealogist.

One of the most important rules historians doing field research can remember is to do as much research as possible before going out into the field. Without this diligent research, the historian may ...

We invite undergraduate submissions for the 2026 Denis Menjot Prize, created by means of a generous gift from Prof. Teofilo Ruiz (UCLA) in memory of the distinguised French historian Denis Menjoy ...

Chinese artist Zhou Xiaoping encountered a new group of friends 30 years ago while on a road trip through Western Australia, ...

Over 2,000 Iowans have signed onto a petition urging state administrators to reconsider closing the State Historical Research Center in Iowa City. The Save Iowa History coalition started the petition ...

It was “one of the foulest crimes in (the) history of Eagle County,” according to The Herald Democrat published on April 14, 1916. Carl Josef “Charley” Peterson, a bachelor homesteader originally from ...

AI might excel at certain tasks like coding or generating a podcast. But it struggles to pass a high-level history exam, a new paper has found. A team of researchers has created a new benchmark to ...

The importance of this for eDNA research cannot be overstated ... By sequencing DNA from museum specimens — including ...