The New Deal's radical changes and the hurdles it faced along the way may sound strikingly familiar to what Americans are hearing today.

The Curiosity Desk joins a walking tour of 1970s Cambridge, with the man behind "Mapping Out Utopia."

Boston’s 54th Regiment memorial, which honors the first black regiment to fight for the Union in the Civil War, is kicking off a major restoration this fall. How the project is helping highlight Boston’s black history.

Part of the event included a special presentation in Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall, where park rangers did their best to solemnly illustrate the history of slavery in Massachusetts.

Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday.

Historian Ric Murphy is a Massachusetts native who traces his ancestry to the first group of Africans brought to Virginia in 1916.

Emily Rooney quizzed the hosts of BPR on Woodstock trivia.

Joe McDonald’s "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" electrified a crowd of young men and women who were sick and tired of the Vietnam War.

Few know the life story of the American abolitionist, nurse, cook and spy. Now a new historical novel recounts one of her greatest achievements — the Combahee Ferry Raid.

New research from Clark University Professor Taner Akçam further proves the Armenian genocide was systematic and planned.