Wood, born into slavery, fought in the Union Army. He returned to Robertsville and founded Wood Chapel and School for other ...

In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

Known as the "Mountains of Florida" thanks to its ravines and hills, Torreya State Park in northern Florida is a popular ...

The real turning point was 1787. As the narrator explains, delegates in Philadelphia swapped the failing Articles for a ...

A short car ride from Atlanta, Athens, and Augusta, lies a Georgia town steeped in historical sites that both history and ...

Sometimes the best discoveries are hiding in plain sight, and Ottawa, Kansas might be the Sunflower State’s most delightful open secret. Nestled about 50 miles southwest of Kansas City, this charming ...

The Kentucky Fudge Company occupies the former Dedman’s Drugstore building, complete with the original soda fountain, serving up sandwiches, soups, and decadent desserts in a setting that feels like a ...

Public Square has been called the city’s center, its stage for history, and, in many ways, its emotional heartbeat.

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we barely think about it. But the truth is that this wasn’t inevitable. For ...

Credit - Interim Archives/) Despite increasing political polarization, evidence suggests that most Americans fundamentally ...

At the largest mass meeting in living memory, the citizens of Cincinnati, Ohio expressed their enthusiastic support for the Texas Revolution on Nov. 17, 1835.