All throughout May, WTOP is celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with stories about the people and places shaping the D.C. region. Trying to wrap one’s head around all of the ...

When historian Carter Woodson created “Negro History Week” in 1926, which became “Black History Month” in 1976, he sought not to just celebrate prominent Black historical figures but to transform how ...

Mar. 31—Michael Resman had been raising his daughters in Southwest Rochester when he decided to sit down and read his home's abstract, which his bank released years earlier. He eventually came across ...

Historian Wendy Soltz – who researched 66 synagogues built in Indiana over 150 years – has a reply for anyone who dismisses the value of including one built in 2015. That Carmel synagogue – Chabad ...

The Mapping Arts Project recently launched a digital map of Providence that marks locations relevant to African diasporic art history from the 1860s to the 1960s. The project was developed by Lara ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

AND OMAHA’S QUEER COMMUNITY CELEBRATED ITS HISTORY OUT IN THE PARK TODAY. THE EVENT AT ELMWOOD PARK PAVILION ALSO CELEBRATED THE OMAHA QUEER HISTORY MAPPING PROJECT. FESTIVAL GOERS COULD PUT PINS ON A ...

PORTSMOUTH — The North has historically basked in its participation in the Underground Railroad leaving untold, till recent times, its complicity in the slave trade. To explore this topic deeper, the ...

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