Sometimes "silent as the grave" isn't just a metaphor. A team of student and professional history detectives -- led by Laura ...
The Burlington Magazine are inviting applications for their 2026 scholarship for the study of French 18th-century fine and decorative art. According to their website: The Burlington Magazine is ...
Two Ni-Vanuatu riders have delivered a milestone result for the country’s stockmen community, placing at an official Australian Professional Rodeo Association (APRA) event in Tasmania — the first time ...
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As February begins, so does Black History Month, and this year is the 100th anniversary of the celebration. Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched the tradition in 1926. A ...
In 1926, during the nadir of Black history, Dr. Carter G. Woodson—the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), the son of formerly enslaved parents, a ...
2026 has dawned as a momentous red-letter year for American history. As most know by now, the United States already has launched America250, its supersized patriotic bash to commemorate its 250th ...
In a library full of computers and people wearing hoodies and sneakers stood a woman who appeared to have come straight from the 1700s. She wore a grayish-blue gown draped with two petticoats and ...
Donald McLean does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
January 18, 1856 - Nebraska’s Territorial Legislature chartered the Bank of Florence on Jan. 18, 1856. Like other banks in the Nebraska Territory, it issued unsecured “wildcat currency” and financed ...
Historian Keith Lockhart is excited about a new year and another round of research into photos, postcards and photo-based illustrations from about a century ago, and often longer, in Delaware County.
100 Years Ago, 1926: Andrew Elliott, 46 years old, a lifelong resident of Rockdale, was found dead under the Rockdale bridge at 10.30 o’clock yesterday morning. Elliott to all appearances had fallen ...
Today is Sunday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2026 with 347 to follow. The moon is new. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury and Uranus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Those ...