AKRON, Ohio – At first glance, West Akron’s Schneider Park looks unassuming. In warmer months, the park is busy with people walking their dogs and youth sporting events such as soccer and flag ...

CHARLESTON — The lives of three dozen people who were among those enslaved in Charleston were forgotten for centuries. Now, 36 pairs of bronze-cast hands are part of a permanent memorial at the corner ...

Evidence of a burial ground has been discovered at the site of a former institution for unmarried mothers and their children in Tuam, County Galway. The mother and baby home came to international ...

The High Court of Maharashtra state in western India has ordered a municipal authority to clear encroachments and restore a nine-acre plot reserved for a multi-faith burial and cremation ground, ...

A vast sugarcane field blankets more than 700 acres just north of the Sunshine Bridge near Donaldsonville, the Mississippi River bending north around the land before reversing direction as it flows ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The federal government has removed an obelisk monument from Indigenous burial grounds in Michigan’s eastern Upper Peninsula. On Nov. 4, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...

Experience the terror of the triplets haunted house at Horror Nights Orlando. Get ready for screams and frights! Democrats achieved the worst of all worlds with their ...

Harvard archaeology professor Jason Ur and Johns Hopkins University professor Aja M. Lans are mapping the racial segregation in the Old Burying Ground cemetery to uncover colonial burial trends in New ...

(The Conversation) — The movement to protect the long-obscured sites allows communities to reckon with painful histories through healing, remembrance and ancestral connection. (The Conversation) — In ...

In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina. They had lain hidden for some 200 years ...

I have sat in on some meetings about the burial ground's preservation as a heritage expert, at the request of the descendant Lenora McQueen. The burying ground looks like an abandoned lot. Holding the ...