Gov. JB Pritzker signed a bill authorizing the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to transfer ownership of Shabbona Lake State Park to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, which had been ...

A cannonball is lodged in a historic Mississippi church, but was it fired by the Civil War gunboat USS Rattler?

The town wears its history like a comfortable old sweater—proud but not pretentious, elegant but lived-in. Founded in 1716, ...

The Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture, housed in the former post office building on Main Street, explores the complex and often painful history of Black Natchez residents from the ...