Oct. 18, 1685 Louis XIV Revokes the Edict of Nantes and French Huguenots Flee to South Carolina In the 1560s, the number of Protestants who followed the Calvinist form of religion, or Huguenots, was ...

In the South, family reunions often come in full measure, mixing generations bearing logoed paraphernalia and swapping lore with lively abandon. Then there are the Ravenels. This year, 80 family ...

THE great religious movements of the past have a peculiar fascination for all readers of history. Like Hamlet and Faust, they have something in them to meet the demands of every mood. Nowhere else in ...

In the 1560s, the number of Protestants who followed the Calvinist form of religion, or Huguenots, was increasing in France, particularly in the southern and western regions. But the Wars of Religion ...

Owen Stanwood, assistant history professor at Boston College, spoke Friday to students about the Huguenots — French Protestants who fled France in the 16th and 17th centuries due to religious ...

Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North ...

In 1678, 12 intrepid families originating from Northern France made their way to an area of New York State which, after much searching, felt like home. They purchased 40,000 acres of land from the ...

The Dutch and the English were the first Europeans to settle the Hudson Valley, as everyone around here knows. But another group of oft-overlooked pilgrims also established an early and lasting ...