A new documentary airing on WGBH television explores that speech and Kennedy's relationship with the man who it honored: poet Robert Frost.

“This is the thing that I think is hard for people,” Locke said. “It is the ‘cradle of liberty.’ Frederick Douglass spoke here, suffragettes spokes here. At the same time, Peter Faneuil was a slaver... Both of those things can be true.”

In this special encore segment host Callie Crossley speaks with Boston National Historical Park rangers about the legacy of the Charlestown Navy Yard Rosies

Breadcrumbs found at an excavation in Jordan reveal that humans were baking thousands of years earlier than previously believed. It may have even prompted them to settle down and plant cereals.

The proposed memorial, which also highlights the fact that the Faneuil family derived its wealth from slavery, comes after a group petitioned City Council to change the name of the hall in June.

The city discovered that the current memorial included the names of only a fraction of residents who served in WWI.

Millions visit the expansive National Mall each year in Washington, D.C., to see the towering Jefferson Memorial, Martin Luther King Jr. memorial,…

Last week, at Boston's Old South Meeting House, visitors and friends were invited to read excerpts from his speech.

The music tells a very specific story about Russia’s defeat of Napoleon’s invading army.

The Pieper twins were killed in the 1944 D-Day Normandy invasion. Last month, they were laid to rest together in military cemetery in France — thanks to a Nebraska teen's history project.