21+ hour, 32+ min ago   (184+ words) After the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, consultants condemned the Romanesque-style Cooper House, Santa Cruz’s best downtown landmark. This was despite architect/contractor Michael Bates who had reinforced the building and said it could be saved. I appealed to the Historic Preservation…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (27+ words) The Columbus Dispatch This Week In History: Abraham Lincoln speaks at Ohio Statehouse in 1859...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1059+ words) "He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860" by Jonathan Earle Jonathan Earle, the dean of LSU Ogden Honors College, is the author of "He Has the People: Abraham Lincoln and the Election of 1860." Jonathan Earle, the dean…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (452+ words) This year marks a quarter of a century since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Twenty-five years later a part-time Southwest Florida resident talks about his role in verifying what happened that day. In particular, what happened to a flag that…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (553+ words) On July 26, Barbara Glasener, Barbara Menning, Karen Shields, Susan Aswegan, Sandy Miller, Pat Coffie, and Karen Brandt wound their way through the streets of Janesville in red cars decorated with red, white, and blue and signs promoting the chapter and…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (442+ words) Great Road Day will be held Saturday, Sept. 19. Visitors can step inside nine historic buildings along Great Road and explore stories spanning three centuries of Lincoln history. LINCOLN – For one afternoon this month, visitors can step inside nine historic buildings…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (568+ words) The Robert Hungerford Normal & Industrial School was named for my great-grandfather, Robert Hungerford, a doctor who brought medical care to young African American patients in Florida in the years after the Civil War. After losing their son Robert, my family…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (255+ words) Edison and Ford Winter Estates will host the Smithsonian traveling exhibit “Americans” from Dec. 12 through Feb. 6. The exhibition from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street and the National Museum of the American Indian explores how deeply intertwined American Indians are…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (136+ words) starvedrock.media Retired Reverend Owen B Lovejoy will be in attendance at this week’s Princeton Homestead Festival.The festival celebrates the late C Owen Lovejoy and his legacy This Thursday, Owen Lovejoy will be at True Leaves Bookstore…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (156+ words) The program is free and offered as a Connecticut Freedom Trail Month activity. Registration is required and available here. At 4 p.m., Rediker and Lester will hold a conversation with educators on how to use the graphic novel as an educational resource…...