ICE is quietly buying warehouses for detention centers and leaving local officials out of the loop - At least 20 communities ...

ICE, which is part of DHS, has purchased at least seven warehouses in Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Texas, signed deeds show. Other deals have been announced but not yet finalized, ...

The Revolutionary War was about many things — self-governance being at the core — but a major driver was access to land. The British restricted colonists’ migration westward across the Appalachian ...

A new analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows New Hampshire has continued to rely on migration from other states to drive population growth.

The author says Rhode Island's direct military role in the American Revolution was limited, but its unique history of ...

Learn about how British mercantilism fueled economic imbalance, slavery, and revolution in the American colonies, leading to the rise of free trade and the end of mercantilism.

Kathleen Sullivan shares the discovery of her former home's connections to the slave trade and the pitfalls of a romanticized ...

Robert Frost is a name deeply associated with New England, even though he was born in San Francisco and spent much of his life in other parts of the country ...

Long before the famous Underground Railroad, those seeking freedom from slavery traveled on foot, by boat and under cover of darkness to Fort Mose in Spanish-controlled Florida ...

They began vanishing in the 1970s. Random acts of vandalism plagued Tilton and Northfield for years amid a proliferation of mass-produced statues that made public art especially ripe for defacement.