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18+ min ago   (72+ words) U.S. News & World Report Paris Liberated and the March on Washington: Picturing This Week in History Aug. 24 – 30 Aug. 25, 1944 | Parisians cheer American troops marching through the city following the French capital’s liberation from Nazi control during World War II. Get the Admissions…...

11+ min ago   (762+ words) Editor’s Note: Before reading this article, we recommend Tim Wheeler’s earlier story on the life of Mary Metlay Kaufman. It provides informative background on the life of this remarkable lawyer and activist. You can find it here: Mary Metlay Kaufman:…...

5+ min ago   (588+ words) A historical marker honoring Chief Saracen and the Quapaw Nation was unveiled Monday afternoon (Aug. 24), not long after locals gathered at one of many landmarks named after him to listen to the story of the people he led. Saracen’s name…...

36+ min ago   (127+ words) Posted By: Lindsay-Jo Douglas August 24, 2026 From GRAND RAPIDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY The Grand Rapids Historical Society has announced a 250th lecture series celebrating 250 years of American history. The programs arranged chronologically from Fallen Timbers to the Vietnam War are taking place from…...

20+ min ago   (199+ words) Great Barrington — In a ceremony hosted by the Du Bois Freedom Center, the town unveiled an informational kiosk on the life of Elizabeth Freeman at Town Hall on Saturday, August 22. Born into slavery in Claverack-Red Mills, N.Y., around 1744, Freeman sued…...

3+ hour, 7+ min ago   (661+ words) Merced County Times Newspaper - The Power of Positive Press By SARAH LIM Special to the Times What better name for a building than “Land of Sunshine”? To many Chicagoans in the late 19th century, that meant a sunny life in California....

1+ hour, 17+ min ago   (240+ words) LiDAR works by firing rapid laser pulses from an aircraft toward the forest floor. Laser beams filter through the dense leaves to bounce off the forest floor, allowing scientists map the ground without disturbing the trees. In the survey area…...

40+ min ago   (187+ words) Day of Remembrance keysnews.com Recording artist, performer and cultural practitioner Oba Ogunlano displays his “Shango’ performance Sunday evening during the Key West Community Observance of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition....

1+ hour, 12+ min ago   (1040+ words) More than six decades after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. composed his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the young Black woman who helped transform scattered notes on smuggled scraps of paper into one of history’s greatest writings is finally…...

47+ min ago   (359+ words) This is reported by the Ostroh State Historical and Cultural Reserve on Facebook. On August 24, marking the 110th anniversary of the museum’s founding at Ostroh Castle, the State Historical and Cultural Reserve of the City of Ostroh opened the exhibition “110 Stories…...