The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

Whether you want just a romantic evening, a weekend getaway, or maybe a spot for a marriage proposal, America has no shortage ...

Sometimes blending Scripture with contemporary music and the arts, faith leaders are providing lessons on Black history to ...

In the early days of October 1969, a group at Garrett Theological Seminary pushed aside some of the pews in the chapel in ...

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Even longtime Civil War history buffs learned something new at the Kankakee Valley Historical Society’s event Saturday in ...

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away ... as well as the arrival of the first railroad from Houston on Christmas Day, 1871. The first rearranged ...