D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

The first Chinese migrants settled in Siam – the official name of Thailand before 1939 ... Pasuk writes in her 2017 book A History of Ayutthaya that, in the 1730s, a French missionary ...

A six-foot-plus Lady Columbia carved in wood, on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ... in 1893 Lady Columbia gave her name and her likeness to posters for the World ...

How did this commercial area, with a mixture of residential living and businesses near downtown Wilmington, get its name? The ...

It was the culmination of a long-awaited dream and a cause for great celebration when Port Canaveral officially was dedicated ...

Current Montgomery Area Junior/Senior High School Principal, Dr. Joseph Stoudt, will assume the role of district Superintendent ... “My family has a pretty long history in Montgomery.

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

The judges [...] Chief Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that there is “probable cause” to hold the government in contempt for defying his ...

Teedyuscung (circa 1700-1763) was a Native American leader of the Delaware- or Lenape- tribe. He was a controversial figure ...