Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...

Lincoln High School's latest play, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," tells the story of six quirky kids who ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- A group of us from around Medina County have been working on finding the stories of Revolutionary War ...

The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...

Robert Donaldson was born Oct. 13, 1828, in Perry County, Ohio. He was the son of Thomas Donaldson and Nancy Saffer Donaldson. Both natives of Virginia, Thomas and Nancy immigrated to Ohio in 1823 ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

It represented the best of the community in 1913 when a church was involved in fundraising for repairs to its building after ...

Feb. 15, Hancock County Historical Society quarterly meeting will host Reg Ankrum, a resident of Quincy, speaking on “The Statehood of Illinois and County Formation.” He is a ...

Whenever Britain faced conflict - from early invasions by the Celts and Romans to WWII when skies were criss-crossed with ...

For a family with ties to George Washington and a tangled web of businesses, very little remains in Nebraska to help others ...