They were eventually transferred to the Rock Island Prison Barracks at the newly ... with the announcement the Civil War had ended and the enslaved people were free. "This declaration took two ...

As a part of the Multi-Generational Community Building Speaker Series, students interacted with Dr. Frank Smith and Macarthur Cotton, two civil rights ... Jr. Center in Rock Island.

Rock Island Auction Company of Illinois shows off rare Civil War, WWI items made by Tiffany & Co. Rock Island's Joel Kolander shares details with Fox News Digital on three military antiques up for ...

Local officials say another series of unmarked graves — this one containing 14 individuals — has been dug up in a park in the ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - The Rock Island National Cemetery hosted the Vietnam War ‘50th Anniversary Commemorative Ceremony’ on Wednesday, Vietnam War Veterans Day, to honor all United States ...

Kid Rock has joined the fight to preserve a historic Civil War-era mansion in Tennessee that is also a part of country music history. The rock and sometimes country singer is speaking out about ...

“Daughters of Chaos,” the debut novel from Little Rock writer Jen Fawkes ... The publisher describes it as “an epic novel about Civil War-era Nashville’s ‘public women,’ a secret ...

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Rock,” the DC Comics adaptation from Craig ... through the European theater of World War II. (Though he does eventually become chief of staff for Lex Luthor.) DC Studios co-chiefs James ...

ISLIP, N.Y.-- Scores of handwritten letters from a Civil War soldier to his wife have been donated to the Islip Historical Society by a family that traces its roots to the Long Island town.