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Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoNew equipment at the National Archives digitization center in Maryland is up to 10 times faster than...
In black and white: Democrat photo archives now open at Tallahassee Community College
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWhen a man as revered as former Florida A&M University President Frederick S. Humphries passes on, a...
'Honest assessment of the past': Community Hero Steve Murray, keeper of Alabama's true history
The Montgomery Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIt serves as Alabama’s attic. The Alabama Department of Archives and History, established in 1901,...
A Texan honors her French ancestor who died while mapping the Gulf Coast in 1778
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 months agoINDIANOLA, Texas — We long to know our origins. This almost universal human impulse has pushed the...
Decades worth of Fall River newspapers are now free online. Here's how to uncover history.
The Herald News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDigging into Fall River history — and your own — is getting easier. The library has made decades of...
Debunking Rumors that WEF Founder Klaus Schwwab's Father Was a Nazi
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 week agoReddit Klaus Schwab's father, Eugen Wilhelm Schwab, worked for a company that supplied munitions to...
The Monday After: A look back at Stark County veterans from our history's wars
Gannett via AOL· 7 months ago"I see not a few of the Revolutionary (War) veterans around me. Would to God that it had ever been...
An Erie killer vanished 111 years ago, a local historian found out what happened to him
Erie Times News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDeep within the Court of Oyer & Terminer archives located at the Hagen History Center in Erie is a box of records related to the 1908 September term of court. Only a handful of pages remain ...
Get back up to speed: Why Biden won’t be prosecuted over classified material
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 week agoSpecial counsel Robert Hur, who spent a year investigating the discovery of classified material at...
Remembrance event acknowledges three lynchings in Frederick County's past
The Frederick News-Post, Md. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMay 13—On Nov. 22, 1887, six men from a primarily masked mob of about 200 broke into the Frederick city jail, subdued and dragged John Biggus, 20, from his cell. The mob hanged him on a locust ...