Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FAIRMONT — Fairmont may be connected to a 260-year-old mystery from America’s colonial period. Fairmont State University Professor ...

A new book is addressing the age old question about whether people of African descent were present in biblical history. “The Bible is Black History” explores DNA evidence and the work of historians ...

Anyone who visits Washington, D.C., expects to hit the museums. The National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are considered ...

On October 6, in the year 1536, a pitiful figure was led from a dungeon in Vilvorde Castle near Brussels, Belgium. For nearly a year and a half, the man had suffered isolation in a dark, damp cell.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

WASHINGTON — On a rainy spring afternoon, Denise Diggs visited the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was in search of a family artifact. Wearing jeans and a blue ...

A piece of Taunton’s early Colonial history is about to go up for auction in Northern Ireland. Elizabeth Pole's copy of the Geneva Bible is being put up for sale in Belfast on Tuesday, Jan. 10, by ...