The Palace of Thundering Gods is a freely accessible, open-source resource that tells the history of Religion in the United States. It has been created

[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...

A new book describes how cutting-edge genomics techniques yielded “extraordinary proof” that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings.

(RNS) — DNA testing has upended some families by finding living relatives we never knew we had. Two Latter-day Saint researchers want to study how people cope with such revelations.

After months of clashes with the White House, the historian and leader of the institution is retiring later this year.

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I will get to the reason for the toilet image, I promise. My summer was bracketed, unintentionally but perfectly, by two excellent memoirs: I started the summer with Kim Gordon’s Girl In a Band and w...

I will get to the reason for the toilet image, I promise. My summer was bracketed, unintentionally but perfectly, by two excellent memoirs: I started the summer with Kim Gordon’s Girl In a Band and w...

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

The Cougars walk-on turned legend will make his NFL preseason debut Friday just 20 miles away from where he grew up.

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The opening beats from the bombas de pellejo at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime show came from an instrument brought over by enslaved Africans to Puerto Rico. Bad Bunny then displays a sugar plantatio...

Considering applying? Join Crossroads Project Director Judith Weisenfeld on Zoom for an information session about the American Crossroads grants. Monday, August 3, 20265:00pm - 6:00pm Eastern

(RNS) — Buddhism is an American religious tradition that intersects meaningfully with African American religious history, experts in the emerging field of Black Buddhism say.

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.