Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

This year marks the 100th year for Black history to be formally recognized nationally. Started in 1926 by historian Carter G. Woodson as Negro History Week, the month is used to spotlight the true ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A noted historian will join the nation’s largest African American History Month celebration as one ...

“If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated,” wrote Carter G. Woodson in a ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. (WSIL) — Before freedom had a freeway, it had a railroad. On Saturday, February 14 at 11 a.m., the Carbondale Public Library will host a powerful Black history program titled “Joseph ...

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At the end of January, the Department of Justice released over 3 million more materials related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The documents revealed the depth of the relationship that Peter ...

What’s in a name? For the U.S. military, a lot. In 2020, Congress created the Naming Commission. Its purpose: to rename nine of the most prominent Army bases and monuments that honored men who took up ...

FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER. IT’S A NAME YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HEARD OF BEFORE. SHE’S A BALTIMORE NATIVE, BORN IN THE EARLY 1800S WHO FOUGHT FOR VOTING RIGHTS, WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND AN END TO SLAVERY.

Pete Finney, beloved steel guitarist who accompanied everyone from Patty Loveless to Beck, died Feb. 7 at age 70, according to a social media post from the Country Music Hall of Fame. Although ...

He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912. By Clay Risen Roland Huntford, a journalist and historian who ...

PHILADELPHIA — In Philadelphia, a few steps from the Liberty Bell, there stands a ghost house. It consists of partially reconstructed red brick walls, an empty door frame and windows and, etched on a ...