The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

The Kankakee Valley Historical Society will share that and other stories of the Northwest Indiana's contribution to the Civil War this weekend. “The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana” will take ...

A local filmmaker is holding open screenings of his original documentary, about Upstate New York’s role in the Underground ...

Guest speaker Chandra Manning, professor of U.S. history at Georgetown University, was featured at Daugherty-Palmer Commons ...

A handful of residents who lived through what's known as Bloody Monday in the summer of 1963 assembled Saturday evening for a ...

What does it take to be labeled a war criminal? For Henry Wirz, commanding one of the worst POW camps in history was enough.

When you think about slavery in the United States you probably think about it happening in the deep south in the 1800’s and causing the Civil War. However, slavery was ...

This month marks the 250th anniversary of the Fincastle Resolutions, in which leaders in the now-defunct Fincastle County ...

Minyoli was imagined as a traditional Taiwanese noodle shop in Chicago, but has become a creative cultural exploration, where popcorn fried chicken meets street food waffles. Chef and owner Rich Wang ...

Chef and owner Rich Wang opened his debut restaurant in Andersonville last May ... Chinese refugees after the decadeslong Chinese Civil War, which ended in 1949. People from all over China ...

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees called for “rapid, unhindered and uninterrupted humanitarian access” to the strip to relieve the suffering caused by war. Israel will release 735 ...