Women who fought for and against the Equal Rights Amendment decades ago — sometimes as teenagers — are watching the votes in Virginia.

A non-profit group told WGBH News on Thursday that it intends to break ground on a monument to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., on the…

Few thought it would ever happen but in 1969 the prestigious all male Yale University went coed. Author Anne Gardiner Perkins' new book, "Yale Needs Women, tells the stories of the first women on the Yale campus who faced extraordinary pressure to succeed.

Olympics, elections and anniversaries — oh my!

“Please stop the Russians from bombing the North Pole,” an 8-year-old girl wrote at the time. "Because they will kill Santa Claus.”

The history of Nantucket’s centuries-old black community is highlighted in a 200-year-old meeting house.

From the politics to the presidents' counternarratives, there are a number of similarities between the events of December 1998 and the proceedings underway now against President Trump.

A new exhibition at the Louvre includes Leonardo's sketches, drawings and 11 paintings. "You can really get into his brain and try to see how he thought," says biographer Serge Bramly.

How one museum in Provincetown is attempting to more accurately tell the story.

There is an explanation, but you have to go back to things decreed by Presidents Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt (FDR, that is).