Lowell Knobloch interviewed Mitchell resident William Thompson as part of his mission to preserve veterans’ stories ...

Retired Urbana High faculty, administrators and office personnel pitched in for a plaque now displayed on the wall above the ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.

NEW YORK – The 76th National Book Awards will unveil this year’s winners Wednesday night, with novels by Megha Majumdar and ...

Originally built for a different war, the M1903 Springfield wasn’t supposed to matter in WWII - but it did. We uncover how this aging rifle found new life on the battlefield, the soldiers who relied ...

McGill University's Osler Library holds four copies of John McCrae's poem, each one speaking volumes about how the human ...

In September the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced a new, harder version of the civics test immigrants take ...

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...

Leiden, a city whose university is often called the Oxford of the Netherlands, features museums, gardens, murals and plenty ...

The Winds of War was a groundbreaking 80s miniseries that brought WWII to life with unprecedented scope, accuracy, and ...