Local organizations are presenting special weekend events focusing on Belgian and Amish culture, crafts, fireworks, planes, ...

The Historical Society of Kent County will host historian Dr. Lucy Maddox for a free public talk on Saturday, August 2, at 2:00 p.m. at Emmanuel Parish Hall, ...

The Newport Historical Society will transform Washington Square into an 18th-century French encampment this Saturday, July 12, as the annual “French in Newport” living history event returns from 11 a.

Step back into the 1780s as French in Newport returns to Washington Square on July 12, celebrating the historic ...

Good morning, Newport! Today is Friday, July 4, the 185th day of 2025. There are 180 days left in the year. This is Independence Day. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted by ...

We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with ...

Patrick Henry will never be forgotten — “Liberty or Death” ensures that — but he’s less remembered than his peers who became president, partly because he never served in that office, and also because ...

Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, arriving at 10 p.m. on July 18 to take command at Lake George in the Adirondacks, found a single ...

A local coalition said the State Historical Society's decision to close a research facility in Iowa City without prior notice or public input from key stakeholders.

The State Historical Society of Missouri will launch an exhibition next month with 75 photographs taken in the 1950s by a Howard County mail carrier of people and places along his mail route.

Did George Washington's mid-18th century route traveling between forts really pass through Grove City? A researcher who has ...

Did George Washington’s mid-18th century route traveling between forts really pass through Grove City? A researcher who has doubts about the long-accepted and marked route is next ...