Any true historian knows that if you want to research the life of someone who died several generations ago, you’d better be willing to dig. So when local historians Phyllis Bridges and Linda Willard ...

By Linda Charlton Friday, February 7 is a big day for the community of Groveland, for that’s when the Oak Tree Union Colored ...

A monument has been erected to honor about 450 Black people buried in unmarked graves at the Taylor City Cemetery.

Along Lyons View Pike sit three representations of Knoxville's Black history – the former Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

What comes to mind when you think of the city of Savannah? Is it the beautifully laid out squares that dot the city? Or ...

As part of the upcoming 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence known as the Semiquincentennial to be celebrated on July 4, 2026, the library local history department has ...

In a cemetery tucked away in Far North Dallas, surrounded on all sides by apartment buildings, a group of about 50 gathered in the chilly Saturday morning air. They had come to see the unveiling of a ...

By Memorial Day on May 26, the memorial will be complete, with an extensive program planned for the day, including a ribbon ... Zita's most recent newsletter for names of veterans to be engraved on ...

The first Cemetery Stroll to be offered at the historic Key West City Cemetery this season will take place on Sunday, Jan. 26. During the stroll, groups of visitors will be escorted to grave sites, ...

Until a few weeks ago, they did it for no formal pay - digging graves, washing corpses, and tending to the vast cemetery ... scrap metal to steal the grave markers. Some of the graves have ...