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 ...

Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In America's recent past, there have been other historic raids on immigrant communities to counter political and social ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.