The living-history museum in Virginia re-creates 18th-century recipes in its restaurants using ingredients grown in the traditional way onsite. But some modern palates aren't too keen on the taste.

Can the everyday objects that people keep for years tell the story of a changing town?

If you’ve boarded an MBTA bus lately, you might have seen a decal on the side dedicated to Rosa Parks.

No one knows for sure, but there are a few leading theories.

In celebration of MLK Day, we take a closer listen to a few of Reverend King’s speeches and deconstruct some of his best-known rhetoric.

America’s proverbial melting pot is real. But African-American history is all but missing from the nation’s archives. Now, a two-pronged campaign is helping families donate personal papers to historical collections to fill in the gaps.

Tuesday marks 100 years since a 2 million gallon tank of molasses cracked open in Boston, and molasses covered two city blocks in just seconds.

Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn looked at the "cascading consequences" of the government shutdown.

Christmas is about traditions, but even seemingly timeless traditions started somewhere.

The answer is a tale of colonial expansion and the division of large swaths of land into smaller ones. But there is also a more complicated side to the story.