7+ hour, 56+ min ago  (730+ words) The Erie Maennerchor building, a longtime former social club in the 1600 block of State Street, is now considered a historic structure under the city's zoning laws. Erie City Council on June 17 unanimously approved historic designation ordinances for the Maennerchor and…...

1+ hour, 25+ min ago  (798+ words) Home - Environment - An ancient Mexican pyramid collapsed into rubble, sparking spooky omens and urgent archaeology in one dusty pile A stone pyramid base at the Ihuatzio archaeological site in Michoac'n, Mexico, partly collapsed after intense rain followed a period of…...

8+ hour, 26+ min ago  (933+ words) People are being invited to get their hands dirty and help probe Scotland's past as experts begin a summer campaign to unravel a series of ancient mysteries. An Iron Age broch, a Roman encampment and a Pictish fort are among…...

1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (91+ words) COLUMBIA, S. C. (WOLO)" As the country celebrates our 250th anniversary, USC researchers helped identify a teenage Revolutionary War soldier. A USC spokesperson says the hero's name was John Pumphrey. The 14-year-old was killed by musket fire during the Battle of Camden. Nearly…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (98+ words) York County before the American Revolution was a dull place for settlers, merchants, mechanics and innkeepers. In other words, just for about everyone. But not always. There was energy in this land of. .. York County before the American Revolution was…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (981+ words) Chattanooga: Its every suburb was a battlefield. These are the words that open the first chapter of historian Zella Armstrong's second volume of "The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee." "Some of the battles are of world wide fame,…...

9+ hour, 53+ min ago  (294+ words) The Lincoln Highway Association (LHA) is playing host to several seminars'and events'to'explore 250 years of transportation history along the Lincoln Highway. On Friday, June 26,'presentations will be made'at the'Yorktowne'Hotel'Wellspan'Ballroom, 48 East Market St in York City,'and the York College Gunter-Smith Center…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (138+ words) It doesn't matter what the founders intended in the Declaration of Independence, the Rev. Byron Williams argues. It's all in writing. Here's why the Declaration of Independence is still 'radical' Across eight months of conversations with historians, legal scholars, museum…...

3+ hour, 56+ min ago  (20+ words) Formerly-enslaved, abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass was nominated for president, becoming the first Black candidate in U. S. history....

11+ hour, 3+ min ago  (307+ words) About a mile north of the Mason-Dixon Line in New Freedom, the first of a series of life-sized art bell installations was unveiled June 22, telling the story of Black people in the first days of the new nation." It would…...