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.

The Weekend Edition Saturday host spoke with WGBH radio's Henry Santoro on his third anniversary edition of Henry In The Hub.

A U.S.-funded conservation project is shoring up the brick walls of the ancient city. The hope is that Babylon will qualify for UNESCO World Heritage status.

Food critic and senior editor at The Atlantic Corby Kummer said eating Turkey on Thanksgiving connects people across the country.

Historian Nancy Koehn explains why President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in the middle of the Civil War.

Thanksgiving was once celebrated intermittently, in some states but not others. Then Sarah Josepha Hale took up the cause.