From candlelit mansions to ghostly art tours, the Big Apple is teeming with places that reveal its haunted history.

As America approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, the popular annual York County History Storytellers event will focus on ...

Blaming the British for the destruction helped persuade some wavering colonists to back the fight for independence. But the ...

After reconfiguring and rethinking two floors of its Fifth Avenue mansion, the museum reopens them to the public.

Looking for a picturesque hiking escape while visiting New York City? This hiking trail in Upper Manhattan offers views of New Jersey’s Palisades River and the lower Hudson Valley.

Not much is known about Abigail Cogswell Dayton’s early life. She is likely the Abigail Cogswell, daughter of John Cogswell, who was baptized Nov. 21, 1751, in Kent, Conn. More ...

Yellowed by time and brown around the edges, the four- by-seven-inch booklet titled “Regulation for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” helped transform the Continental Army ...

Knox Cannonball Crunch is a new ice cream flavor at Ballston Spa, New York-based Stewart’s Shops.

Fully peaceful protesters who hate President Donald Trump with intensity but not much specificity took to the streets on Saturday.

Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan's oldest surviving residence. The mansion offers tours with paranormal investigative equipment.

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

Millions of Americans rallied under the banner of ‘No Kings’ to protest what they see as President Trump’s authoritarian turn, a modern echo of 1776’s revolutionary spirit ...