2+ hour, 4+ min ago  (487+ words) On Friday the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center announced that the Boston firm Model of Architecture Serving Society, better known as MASS Design Group, along with sculptor Dana King, will transform the melted remains of Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee…...

10+ hour ago  (418+ words) Today is Sunday, July 12, the 193rd day of 2026. There are 172 days left in the year. On July 12, 1967, rioting erupted in Newark, New Jersey, over the police beating of a Black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (186+ words) A new bronze monument honoring the soldiers of the 111th New York Infantry Regiment will soon be installed in Lyons, recognizing the sacrifices of local men who fought during the Civil War. Created by nationally recognized sculptor Gary Casteel, the monument,…...

20+ hour, 19+ min ago  (1465+ words) The Lake George Examiner What's going on in Lake George? In July 1776, in the stifling heat of the Philadelphia Statehouse, the nation’s Founding Fathers cast their votes to declare independence from Great Britain. Meanwhile, 300 miles north, American soldiers were returning…...

22+ hour, 51+ min ago  (460+ words) Carl Swick's Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address during the Clarksburg History Museum's open house on July 11, 2026. Attendees listen to Pete Taylor's presentation on the evolution of doctors and medicine during the Civil War era at the Clarksburg History Museum…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (296+ words) Editor's note: part of a series on Civil War notables. Sam Watkins was a young Confederate private from Tennessee whose vivid memoir of serving in the 1st Tennessee Regiment gives one of the best firsthand accounts of what it was like…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1851+ words) Israel is home to hundreds of war memorials and monuments to those who lived and bled for the land, but the monument that stands at the peak of the Ammunition Hill Heritage Site in the heart of Jerusalem is one…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (808+ words) RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s historic State Capitol building will get two new statues — the first since Confederate statues were taken down in 2020 — as part of the new state budget. The late Rev. Billy Graham, known worldwide as a conservative Christian evangelist…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (111+ words) Riverside Cemetery is honoring a beloved goose with a custom designed marker. Riverside Cemetery in Marshalltown is honoring an unlikely beloved resident with a specially designed grave marker. The cemetery shared an image of the design that will appear on…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (674+ words) Some of the most important human rights issues in American History trace their origins to a small Madison County Hamlet. The small township and a key figure proved critical in the fight for freedom and equality. Historian Norman Dann describes…...