North America sent millions of dollars in aid to Ireland during the Great Famine. A group of enslaved people in Alabama were ...

Epigenetic programming from prolonged undernutrition and terror can persist 3–4 generations, plausibly contributing to elevated cardiometabolic and mental health burdens documented among Irish cohorts ...

The Great Famine that wiped out nearly a third of Ireland's population was caused by a devastating plant disease that was first detected in the eastern United States ...

With St. Patrick’s day coming up on Tuesday, look to celebrate the Irish culture through their food – which goes beyond ...

I wrote a book about historical sites in Rogers that came out in 2006, "Rogers, Arkansas, 1881-2006." Shortly after publication, I received a long letter from Tom Hughes who at the time lived in ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

Two international nonprofit organizations, ReGen250 and Friends International Bilingual Center, are organizing relief to respond to a famine affecting Indigenous people in Bolivia's Altiplano region ...

August in Charleston witnesses the loveliest of migrations. Like the swallows of Capistrano or the butterflies of Mexico, students flock back to the city in youthful, idealistic, hedonistic, colorful ...

We now know what caused the Irish potato famine. Scientists have pinpointed the pathogen by using plant samples collected in the mid-19th century. Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden ...

About one million people died in the famine in the 1840s and 50s The killer mould behind potato blight has a giant genome, say scientists. Potato blight was a major cause of the mid-19th Century Irish ...