Tales of the people, places and events growing up in the area are shared in the book, drawing on the letters of Mabel Briggs ...

At their planned annual plenary meeting in Baltimore, which begins Nov. 11, the USCCB plans to discuss opening her cause for ...

A Victorian architect who designed some of the most recognisable buildings in the Bournville area of Birmingham is going to be honoured with a blue plaque. William Alexander Harvey was just 21 when he ...

The National Alliance for Black Business (NABB)?a coalition of historic organizations including the National Business League (founded by Booker T. Washington in 1900), the National Black Chamber of ...

Kathryn Woodman Leighton was considered one of the world's most notable painters of American Indian portraits, "at a time when the subject was reserved for males." This painting of important Tewa ...

Caulder enlisted in the Army in 1900 at age 18. He served in France during World War ... It’s one of several opportunities ...

Design Wall Housing is a volunteer-based nonprofit who worked to bring a boarded-up Bangor house up to code so it could serve ...

For years, former Tallahassee Democrat columnist and city historian Gerald Ensley shared brief vignettes in the pages of the ...

Maintaining the massive 12,000-square-foot compound amounts to many thousands of shekels a month, and the owners are eager ...

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

The invention of vulcanized rubber (1839), followed by the popularization of bicycles (1870s) and the invention of the ...

Locals helped them find a home, built in 1900, that’s less than a quarter-mile up the road ... “We will have a much older ...