Boston’s 54th Regiment memorial, which honors the first black regiment to fight for the Union in the Civil War, is kicking off a major restoration this fall. How the project is helping highlight Boston’s black history.

Part of the event included a special presentation in Faneuil Hall’s Great Hall, where park rangers did their best to solemnly illustrate the history of slavery in Massachusetts.

Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday.

Historian Ric Murphy is a Massachusetts native who traces his ancestry to the first group of Africans brought to Virginia in 1916.

Emily Rooney quizzed the hosts of BPR on Woodstock trivia.

Joe McDonald’s "I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" electrified a crowd of young men and women who were sick and tired of the Vietnam War.

Few know the life story of the American abolitionist, nurse, cook and spy. Now a new historical novel recounts one of her greatest achievements — the Combahee Ferry Raid.

New research from Clark University Professor Taner Akçam further proves the Armenian genocide was systematic and planned.

We visited this first-of-its-kind Chinatown excavation before it was cut short.

Biking is increasingly popular now in greater Boston - an historic comeback after a 70 year period when the sport virtually disappeared from the city.