The Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism is shining a spotlight on two historic Fall River attractions. The carousel was showcased in an August blog about the state's "whimsical rides," while the ...

PBS’s fall shows were in the can before the federal government defunded all public broadcasting this summer, so the full effect of the defunding won’t be felt until 2026. The final episodes of at ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Sept. 8, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Replica of the Lady Elgin steamship on ...

Rebecca Courser, a Warner native and past director of the Warner Historical Society, shares her journey researching Black history in Warner, NH, documenting 174 people of color between 1775-1920, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Officials in Charlotte, North Carolina, faced sharp criticism for failing to keep a man with a history of mental illness, arrests and erratic behavior off the streets before he ...

Algorithms are designed to make medicine more accurate. But when race is factored in, they can worsen inequality. NOVA is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...

Three years after becoming the youngest No. 1 player in history, Carlos Alcaraz of Spain reclaimed that title after winning the U.S. Open in a four-set match against Italy’s Jannik Sinner. Aryna ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The history of history changes on an almost historical level daily as scientists and paleontologists continue to find new evidence of our origins. Ella Al-Shamahi’s series ...

Journalists spend their careers documenting the stories of the people and events around them, but a retired Nova Scotia broadcaster's biggest story has turned out to be the mystery of her own ...

Lincoln University of Missouri is the only university in the U.S. founded by Civil War soldiers. Following the Civil War, the Lincoln Institute was founded by black infantry soldiers who believed that ...

Detroit-born screenwriter Rob Edwards has written a graphic novel detailing a little-known figure of America’s Black history: Robert Smalls. One Detroit’s Chris Jordan caught up with Edwards at Comics ...

Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets too close into cosmic spaghetti. But Black Hole expert Janna Levin ...