The American Civil War ended 160 years ago with the Union victorious and slavery abolished. But many Bristolians supported ...

Most towns in the 1830s had one thing in common: white founders. But tucked away in western Illinois, a free Black man named ...

Petaluma witnessed significant events including Theodore Roosevelt's third-party formation, the first woman voting in Sonoma ...

On the front lawn of the now-destroyed Nottoway Plantation were charred relics of atrocities gone by: a pair of flat-back rocking chairs, a wooden end table, and other sorry debris of what — until a ...

History Knox Mark Sebastian Jordan authors a column each Saturday that reflects on Knox County's rich history. GAMBIER — Knox County’s august Kenyon College has had numerous distinguished alumni, many ...

Taken by Portuguese slave ... North America as part of their colonization efforts in Florida and the Carolinas. By 1620, close to 520,000 captured and enslaved African men, women, and children had ...

Back in 1860, the ideas that had emboldened the war were debated in Santa Cruz, through fiery editorials in local and San ...

Ward W. O’Hara was a founder of the Agricultural & Country Living Museum that bears his name, located at Emerson Park in ...

A 26-year-old Connecticut paraeducator faces multiple charges after police say he had sex with a 15-year-old girl earlier this year in the parking lot of a high school. Christopher Fernandes, of ...