PROVO, UT--(Marketwired - Apr 28, 2014) - Ancestry.com today released 11.5 million new records documenting one of the most prominent groups in American history, the "Religious Society of Friends," ...

A Twitter user recently created what became a viral moment on the social media website, after sharing the Wikipedia article of a genderless person from the 1700s. @CommanderSnacks shared a screenshot ...

How do you capture a man who protested slavery so loudly and boldly in 1700s Philadelphia that he was kicked out of his Quaker congregation — an abolitionist who was written off as an eccentric little ...

There is scant mention of Quakers in Exeter's history. Charles Bell, in his "History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire," gives passing reference to the group: "About the middle of the last century ...