3+ week, 4+ day ago   (855+ words) AHOSKIE – A local man who helped shape what was to become the Voting Rights Act approved by the United States Congress in 1965 will forever be remembered thanks to a North Carolina Roadside Historical Marker. James Robert Walker Jr., an Ahoskie…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (137+ words) Interviews with people of the archive and memory statements of historic places in Syria are displayed in this playlist, produced by the Syrian Heritage Archive project at the Museum for Islamic Art at Pergamon Museum in Berlin. Karin Pütt lived…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (346+ words) Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. The proceedings would...a law professor who had previously worked under Thomas, came forward with allegations against him. In...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (120+ words) RTÉ Archives | Commemoration | Collins Griffith Ceremony RTE.ie A commemoration ceremony in Dublin marks the 49th anniversary of the deaths of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith. Representatives of Fine Gael and the Association of the Old Dublin Brigade attended a Memorial…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (516+ words) While talking about India's freedom struggle, a few big names instantly pop into mind. But history is much longer than that, and we do not often recognise the efforts of many unknown brave women, who contributed to the independence. On…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (828+ words) Several famous historical men had sisters who were remarkable in their own right. History is full of famous men whose names we all recognize. What’s less well known is that many of them had sisters who were every bit as…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) paid for her ticket and refused to move. In 1892, Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart were lynched...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (489+ words) In May 1875, almost precisely 10 years after an assassin’s bullet felled the 16th president, his widow, Mary Todd Lincoln, learned she was to stand trial, just an hour before the proceedings began. Clad in full mourning dress with her face veiled, Mary…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (640+ words) Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. In American history, the Vice…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (16+ words) Associated Press journalists who witnessed Sept. 11 remember what they saw, 25 years later KSLM Radio...