Mayor Harold Washington is buried in a cemetery that was once for “whites only.” Protests and legislative fights desegregated ...

American colonists who aligned with the British lost their lands, their reputations and sometimes even their lives ...

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

Over the next eight years, John Armfield in ... much of Africa to supply the slaves, and both North and South America and the West Indies as markets for the enslaved blacks had begun in the ...

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 ...

John Brown and many of his followers holed up in the fire engine house awaiting reinforcements by a swarm of "bees"—slaves from the surrounding area. But only a handful showed up. Library of ...

Voicing the sentiments of many of his fellow reformers, Reverend Jermain W. Loguen ... and be a slave in Tennessee?” The gifted orator and preacher continued, “Did I suppose the people ...

A Long John Silver’s restaurant just north of downtown Springfield will ... into the DC plane crash Long John Silver’s and A&W had two restaurants in Springfield, but the other one at 2217 ...

John proudly served in the United States Air Force oversees in Libya, North Africa and stateside at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. After serving his country, he worked for Bacon and Cibula ...