A century of songs that didn’t just reflect the moment — they shaped eras, sparked movements, and carried the joy and resistance that define Black life.

A hidden passageway at Manhattan’s Merchant’s House Museum may be New York City’s earliest Underground Railroad site.

Books & the Arts / How the popular mayor and a popular front of radicals and reformers transformed New York City Michael Kazin Mike Wallace’s Gotham at War is the third and final volume of the most ...

For the first time in over a century, historians say a new stop on the Underground Railroad has been discovered, fully intact ...

Black History Month’s origins trace back to Kent State University, where students expanded Negro History Week into a ...

Streetsblog sat down with former Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop last week to discuss his new role at the Partnership for New ...

Thanks to an idea from the start of the 17th century, Americans got the notion of apartment buildings from European palaces.

New York City is the sort of place most people might feel familiar with even if they’ve never been there since it shows up in ...

Sofonisba Anguissola's 16th-century painting of a clergyman was known only through a black-and-white photo. However, the ...

Miles Davis veered off the road in New York City while driving a model that had also attracted celebs like Eddie Van Halen, ...

William Schuster and other Adirondackers took a historic stand against eugenics in 1916 with a float in the Winter Carnival ...

George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have always insisted that Indiana Jones was inspired by 1930s adventure serials. But the ...