Patrick Whittle | Associated Press Augusta, Maine — Teachers and science advocates are voicing skepticism about a Maine proposal to update standards to incorporate teaching about...
Ballot initiatives has long been used by Oklahoma voters to address issues bypassed by the Legislature. Yet for more than a decade now, that process has...
Milwaukee County Transit System buses will keep a seat open for two civil rights leaders, Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin, beginning Friday. This is now the...
More than a century after securing the right for women to vote, the Kansas Statehouse is one step closer to having a memorial honoring suffragists. The...
LINCOLN — Nineteen years ago, Gov. Jim Pillen wanted nothing to do with adding another child to the family. He and his wife, Suzanne, already had three...
It’s 20 years ago this week since Arnold Schwarzenegger became governor of California, after the recall of former Gov. Gray Davis. For much of the last...
Special to the Avalanche-Journal Local artist Glenna Goodacre’s bronze statue, The Vietnam Women’s Memorial, was recently celebrated in a 30th anniversary ceremony on the National Mall...
‘Napoleon’: Joaquin Phoenix stars in Ridley Scott’s historical epic Joaquin Phoenix stars as French military leader/emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and Vanessa Kirby is wife Josephine in director...
Every semester, the Illinois Distributed Museum has interns from the History Department at the University of Illinois. These students are interested in careers that will allow...
The bald eagle is a symbol of America, but now investigators are asking for help to figure out how one was shot mid-flight near a battleground...
