The new book documents Dutch-immigrant midwives who were often the only healthcare providers available in their communities for a century.

The latest book published by the Van Raalte Press of the A. C. Van Raalte Institute at Hope College, “Present, but Not ...

Author Russell Shorto often visited St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery’s cemetery when he lived in New York City’s East Village neighborhood a quarter-century ago. It was home to the remains of Peter ...

Charles Gehring in his eighth-floor office of the State Library and he has worked since 1974 on translating 17th-century Dutch documents that reshaped our understanding of America’s roots.

Once there was no more room for expansion, the decision was made to fund a settlement in North America. Charlestowne’s success as a colony was ... English, Dutch, French. And there is that ...

16.Grace Episcopal Church (Yorktown, Virginia) — Built in 1697, Grace Episcopal is reportedly haunted by the spirits of ...

Boston is the kind of place where families can trace their generations back to the first crossing of the Mayflower; but it’s ...

From the last two-story outhouse in the U.S. to an actual fork in the road, here are New York's top roadside attractions — ...

Archaeologists show some of the first people to settle the ancient continent of Sahul arrived on the shores of present-day ...