Visitors to the Bowdish Birthday Bash at the Jefferson County History Center last weekend had a chance to get a glimpse of ...

Winter is the perfect time for working on your family tree. Last week my husband and I got to mark off one of the items on ...

Just weeks after Oklahoma became the nation’s 46th state in 1907, the Oklahoma Senate passed its first law — a Jim Crow ...

Women comprise more than half of the population and make history virtually everywhere. Yet, only 13 U.S. national park sites ...

Visitors to the Bowdish Birthday Bash Saturday afternoon had a chance to glimpse Civil War era life in America. Christina ...

Patrick Chaisson, a retired Army officer, Schenectady resident, and magazine writer, will speak about “Strange, Unusual and ...

During an era when the rights of women and people of color were limited, Decatur's Winnie Parker defied societal norms. "Her story is a story of challenges, but also overwhelming triumphs. She not ...

Chautauqua County was home to more than 1,100 anti-slavery activists between 1835 and 1860, the period leading up to the ...

Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu ...

Lt. R. S. Williamson led portions of the southern survey, aided by Lt. John Parke. It was Parke and his team who traversed ...