For decades, a colorful mural of New Hampshire’s earliest settlers hauling logs, frolicking through the snow and walking through town has greeted visitors at a post office in the state.
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A lawyer whose passion for the Dead Sea Scrolls begat online harassment won the reversal Thursday of most of his criminal convictions.
Read moreAn ancient tablet originally discovered by the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones offers insight into the advanced mathematical understanding of the Babylonians, according to a new study.
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A Houston man was arrested Monday on charges he tried to blow up a Confederate statue in a city park, after a park ranger caught him Saturday night hiding in bushes near the monument with nitroglycerine.
Read moreThe white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that turned deadly on Saturday has brought renewed scrutiny to Confederate monuments across the country.
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Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families. Is it really so far-fetched to put Robert E. Lee in the same category as George Washington, as President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday? Many historians say yes.
Read moreWhen the Saint Francis Dam north of Los Angeles collapsed 89 years ago, the resulting flood claimed the lives of 431 people. With the recent passage of a bill to memorialize victims, a Santa Clarita physician and environmental activist are hoping lawmakers will shine a national spotlight on a forgotten disaster.
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After 54 years, the last remaining investigative records on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are set to be released in October, and their contents could range from mundane to shocking.
Read moreThe United Nations cultural agency on Friday declared the old city in the West Bank town of Hebron as a Palestinian world heritage site, a decision that outraged Israeli officials who say the move negated the deep Jewish ties to the biblical town and its ancient shrine.
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Spanish lawmakers on Thursday voted in favor of moving the remains of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum in central Spain, a measure that has long been rejected by the conservative governing Popular Party.
Read moreTaking a jab at “alternative facts,” a federal magistrate refused Monday to let unsubstantiated gossip connected to the Central Park jogger case slime the men who won $41 million for their wrongful-rape convictions.
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World donors have pledged more than $75 million dollars to protect endangered world heritage in conflict zones.
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A federal judge ruled that a Los Angeles Unified schoolteacher was not protected by the First Amendment when he used a racial epithet in front of a black student who faced a storm of protests after she sued the teacher and her school.
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The federal marine agency has proposed two new sanctuaries in Wisconsin and Maryland to protect historic shipwrecks and maritime battlegrounds.
Read moreFrance committed $30 million toward protecting cultural heritage sites during wartime, a first step in the creation of an international fund aimed at preventing destruction like that carried out by Islamic State militants.
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