In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Happy birthday Abraham Lincoln. He’s 216. The McLean County Museum of History is hallmarking Lincoln’s Feb. 12 birthday with the start of a coloring contest to celebrate Lincoln and work on a mural ...

Missouri lawmakers want to keep an economic ceasefire alive — even as Kansas mounts an aggressive effort to lure the Kansas ...

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Missouri has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature. As ...

On Saturday, Afrikaans-focused trade union Solidarity and civil rights organisation AfriForum ... Among the decisions to be made will be how much to compromise, with concerns that tension between ...

The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player. Protesting ...

Civil rights leaders' alma maters include Ivy League institutions, state and private schools, and HBCUs. The Latest A California appeals court has ruled that a Kern County baker violated state law ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met ...

We invited teenagers to write miniature memoirs about meaningful moments in their lives. Read the 20 winning stories. By The Learning Network This year’s Super Bowl was likely the biggest ...

Wooden bioresources are key materials for the transition to a circular bioeconomy, yet widespread adoption, for example in construction, still lags. Growth is stalled by policy gaps, resource ...