1+ week, 4+ day ago  (320+ words) The Camron-Stanford House " a historic Victorian building and Oakland landmark at Lake Merritt " sustained moderate damage to its exterior and small area of the interior when a fire broke out early Saturday morning. But firefighters from the Oakland Fire Department…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago  (359+ words) Richmond historian and author Viola Baskerville will present the lecture on Thursday, May 7. (Black PR Wire)Historian and author Viola Baskerville will present "The Black Boatmen of Central Virginia" on Thursday, May 7, at Historic Sandusky. The free lecture, which begins…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (61+ words) Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born in Illinois, Charles Goodnight settled in Milam County where he learned frontier life, became a Texas Ranger and forged a. .. Born in Illinois, Charles Goodnight settled…...

47+ min ago  (159+ words) (AURN News) " On April 17, 1863, nearly a century before Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, Charlotte L. Brown defied segregation on a streetcar in San Francisco. After boarding a horse-drawn streetcar with a valid ticket, she was approached by a conductor…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (417+ words) The official Texas State Bison Herd just got more room to roam. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has added about 2, 200 acres to Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway in the Panhandle, expanding the park to roughly 17, 500 acres. The park is…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (198+ words) DAYTON, Ohio (WKEF) -- A historic Dayton landmark will open to the public later this month for a limited-time event. Hawthorn Hill, the longtime home of Orville Wight, will host "Wright at Home" on Sunday, April 26, from noon to 5 p. m. The event…...

20+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1716+ words) (Editor's note: This is adapted from James Mc Clure's foreword to a new Civil War regimental history book about the 200th Pennsylvania Volunteers, "Fearless Sons of War.) After Scott Mingus delivered a Civil War talk at York Haven's NEYCHIP History Center…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (425+ words) King Felipe VI made the remarks while speaking with Mexico's ambassador to Spain, Quirino Ordaz, during a visit to a museum exhibition in Madrid about the role of women in pre-Columbian Mexico. About the centuries-old Spanish conquest, Felipe said: "There…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (425+ words) King Felipe VI made the remarks while speaking with Mexico's ambassador to Spain, Quirino Ordaz, during a visit to a museum exhibition in Madrid about the role of women in pre-Columbian Mexico. About the centuries-old Spanish conquest, Felipe said: "There…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (194+ words) A presentation in Seneca Falls next month will challenge the traditional narrative of the women's rights movement, pointing to its roots in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Ciarrai Eaton, executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, will lead a program exploring…...