Some of the names have changed on the list of possible participants in this year’s Grade 1 Pacific Classic and it has nothing to do with protecting the innocent. It may have more to do with the ...

A big-time showdown involving Breeders' Cup, Dubai World Cup, Kentucky Derby and championship winners looms in Saturday's ...

Conservation work at Boston’s historic Granary Burying Ground revealed a pre-Revolutionary War gravestone honoring a freed ...

School starts in about two weeks for many Austin-area students. While the state's new required reading list won't take effect ...

Here’s the significance of the 8-year-old Irish-bred gelding’s record-setting sixth stakes victory, by a photo finish, in Sunday’s Eddie Read Stakes.

NEW YORK (AP) — Ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas. Smallpox was one of the deadliest diseases in ...

On the morning of July 29, 1776, more than 1,700 miles southwest of Philadelphia, a Franciscan friar pulled on the blue robes of his brethren who worked in the American frontier and sat down to write.

The millions of people who inhabited colonial America left traces of their lives behind—from George Washington’s bed to a young girl’s needlework. Produced by an anonymous painter known as the Freake ...

John Frasca’s eighth-grade history students listen intently when he teaches about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Kids are curious. Every year, I share my 9/11 story and kids always ask ...

NEW KENT — Live racing returns to Colonial Downs this week as the New Kent County track gears up for an expanded, event-filled 2026 season with more races than ever before. Hundreds of horses began ...

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, known as "the birthplace of America," is preparing for large crowds for America 250 celebrations this summer. "The big event will happen the evening of July 4th, on ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio fourth graders and their families will receive free admission to dozens of museums and historic sites across the state this summer as part of Ohio’s celebration of America’s 250 ...