Stephens, who was an Alabama native before moving to Pana, and then Springfield in 1901, was an African American miner.

The Madison County Historical Society will host "Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People" at the Main Street Community Center, located at 1003 N. Main St. in Edwardsville, at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 22 ...

Washington Rewind is a contribution from the Washington Historical Society to the city, commemorating the 2025 Bicentennial.

Kristen Wilson is coordinator of the Illinois Distributed Museum at the University of Illinois Archives in the University of Illinois Library. Kristen can be reached at [email protected].

He helped organize the Manitowoc County Historical Society in 1906 and was an associate editor of Dr. Louis Falge’s “History of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin,” published in 1912.

Washington Irving was born in New-York on the 3d day of April, 1783, but a few days after the news of the treaty with Great Britain, acknowledging our independence, had been received, to the great ...

The Washington County Historical Society is open to the public on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., offering continued opportunities for visitors to explore and research the history ...

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Ward said the township and historical society were looking for a design that would be historically accurate and celebrate the city while not being dated. “She’s amazing, she goes all over the ...

Illinois (11-3, 3-1 Big Ten) managed to hold off Washington (10-5, 1-3) by a score of 81-77 on Sunday in Seattle, but it only just survived a fierce comeback as the surging Huskies simply ran out ...

This 1920 monument in Toppenish notes the precise spot where “Captain A.J. Hembree was killed by Indians April 10, 1856.” (Sue Kahle/Washington State Historical Society) Photo ...