The First Zion Missionary Baptist Church is now the sixth historic marker in Old Town Bluffton. It originally provided a place of worship for former slaves that would last for generations.

The name Raphael was rare when when Social Security’s yearly name lists started. Now, there is renaissance of this Renaissance artist’s name.

A new study finds Trump's plans to expel undocumented immigrants would potentially impact more than 1 in 20 US evangelicals.

We should be glad if the restaurant chain closes. But there’s no solace in how these places are dying in a culture that now ...

A few weeks ago a story of mine about the Stockbridge Indians appeared, and now we turn to the Brothertown Indians, who had a ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 in its rafters.

He arrived in America with the Puritans in 1624 and helped co-found the settlement of Merrymount, which is now Quincy, ...

Anniversaries are a time to look back, to celebrate milestones and achievements; it is also a time to remember the misfortunes and hardships that some of the members of our society experienced leading ...

In Frocester the missing bells do not ring, but they make their presence known, nonetheless. Today, the area around Frocester is rather changed from how it once was, since the railway line from ...

The Puritans were a group behind the religious ideology known as “Puritanism”, a type of early modern Reformed Protestantism that was born within the Church of England. They started as a ...