The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

Thousands of volunteers work to decode handwritten records from America's past. The National Archives program includes ...

The International Context, a new digital archive that demonstrates the far-reaching involvement of European nations in the ...

Said was born Mohammed Ali ben Said around 1836 in Kuka (now called Kukawa) to a Kanuri father and a Mandara-Margi mother. He ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical ...

In the American Civil war there were units on both sides which had uniforms heavily influenced by their individual heritage, fashion crazes or special requirements.

But it is a very real place and the site of a major historical event—a disastrous Civil War battle still remembered as one of the most significant routs in American history. Is there any insight ...

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl reference to "40 acres and a mule" draws lines of similarity to the 40-hour workweek that many ...

The civil disobedience by dozens of middle-schoolers — and some adults — was aimed at the Trump administration’s rollback of ...

The former Chattanooga Regional History Museum had its founding in late 1977, when the now-razed Missionary Ridge Elementary near Bragg Reservation became available by the city, and a group led by ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa author Marilynne Robinson reacted to the use of her name last week by a researcher and writer for ...