Over 100 community members gathered at the Wilson Public Library for a town hall meeting on immigration policy, organized by ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

Before the civil war, the plant brought great prosperity to the country accounting for more than half its exports. But that ...

In celebration of Quincy's quadricentennial, Mayor Thomas Koch highlights two prominent women: Grace Eng Toy and Harriet ...

Graham's Farm in Lake City was a stop for Francis Marion’s troops during the Revolutionary War. A festival, reenactment bring ...

North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson won a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's order to limit birthright ...

More than three decades ago, history was made when Douglas Wilder became the first elected Black governor, not just in Virginia but in the entire United States.

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

The term mental hygiene has a long history in the United States, having first been used by William Sweetzer in 1843. After the Civil War, which increased concern about the effects of unsanitary ...