Today is Thursday, Nov. 7, the 312th day of 2024. There are 54 days left in the year. Today in history: On Nov. 7, 1916, Jeannette Rankin of Montana won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, ...

Alton residents gathered at the Lovejoy Monument to honor journalist Elijah P. Lovejoy's enduring legacy in civil rights.

George Washington, the United States’ first president, was the wealthiest president for more than a century with $708.5 ...

The United States was debt-free only once, during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, and the debt has increased ever since.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Like Louis Campau or Charles Belknap, John Ball’s name lives on in Grand Rapids. The man for ...

Tollcross estate was purchased by Glasgow Corporation in 1896. Tollcross Park was opened there the following year, and the magnificent house was passed between various uses, before falling into ...

If you're unsure where to stay in Savannah, this guide to inns and hotels in the Historic and Victorian Districts will help ...

The New Haven Museum in Connecticut displays a collection of libraries in a recreated walkthrough of the city’s 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. But one bookshelf stands empty throughout those 300 years ...

Thomas Boles was born near Clarksville in July 1837. Most of his life and later career would center ... His father was a ...

Left £500,000 at his death in 1837. The Malcolm family have a recent entry in the ... family of Poltalloch (over the period from about 1750–1857) illustrate how slave-owning 'offered a minor west of ...

Backstabbing and corruption are often common features of politics, so much so that many people are repelled by the entire process. The obsessive quest for power sometimes turns upstanding citizens ...

Carol Bauer, president of the Virginia Education Association, said while the organization remains hopeful, some of the ...