Too many people don’t know or care about our history. This isn’t a particularly new issue, as even in 1943, The New York Times reported that college students showed “a striking ignorance of even the ...

A collection of historical photos takes on a completely different meaning once the stories behind them are revealed. What ...

These historical pictures capture real moments from the past, but their true impact comes from the stories surrounding them.

We often think of history in black and white, quite literally. And that’s because most very old photographs are indeed monochrome, taken before a time when images could easily and affordably be ...

A man with suspenders and patched dungarees squints at the camera, inscrutable. He holds a rope, the tether of an equally enigmatic dapple gray horse, whose bright flank outshines the deep tones of ...

Chloroform, alcohol, morphine, and cannabis in one medication? For just a cough? Wow. 2.French children were served wine at school on their lunch breaks, all the way up until 1956. They were allowed ...

SPRINGFIELD — Two men are working hard to remind people there’s much to be proud of living in Springfield. Paul Meagher, who is also a member of the Springfield Preservation Trust, has taken to ...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – A rare collection of photographs capturing everyday life in Madison County, Illinois from the 1890s to 1930s is now publicly accessible, thanks to a digitization project led by ...

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GREENFIELD — David Schrank is fascinated by the stories the historic buildings in downtown Greenfield tell to people passing by. If only they take the time to listen. Last week Schrank, a member of ...