Have you included digitized, historic newspapers in your search of family history? Some websites provide free access to ...

Whether you’re looking to escape our chaotic present or dive into its roots in the past, this year’s historical novels will ...

On Dec. 4, 1850, editor Thomas J. Dryer cranked out the first issue on a hand press inside a crude log cabin at Front and ...

On Thursday, the brakes were pumped on a proposal to rename Eureka’s Snug Alley to Flatmo Alley, after some digging into the ...

Well over 100 years ago, Colorado’s early mining communities celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday in a fashion that most ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr. was in Erie Dec. 4 as the final speaker of the 17th season of the Jefferson Educational Society's ...

Former Baltimore Sun reporter Elizabeth Atwood talks her new book, “Deadline: 200 Years of Violence Against Journalists in ...

The Franklin County Historical Society in Kansas opened a time capsule that was hidden for 133 years. FRANKLIN COUNTY, Kan. – ...

The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. This newspaper clipping from the Montreal Daily Star, dated Dec. 8, 1941, was among the ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started celebrating his birth.

Thomas Jefferson's nephew is buried in Nashville, and his DNA may shed light on whether Jefferson had children with the ...

A newly donated list of late 1800s Cape Girardeau County midwives sheds light on their vital role in local health care before modern medicine and traces the rise, fall and return of midwifery in ...