THROWBACK: St. Brigid Catholic church, an English Gothic structure, was dedicated on Palm Sunday, April 6, 1941.

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With the nation's big 2-5-0 coming up next year, NPR staff and critics recommended a lot of U.S.-focused titles for Books We Love, our annual year-end reading guide. Below you'll find 10 favorites — ...

In 1947, UFO sightings were rampant throughout Louisiana, particularly in the Alexandria area, as seen in this photo illustration. So many people reported seeing disc-like objects in the sky that a ...

Hagen History Center is negotiating to save a landmark Fairview home. The 1870 Joshua C. Thornton House was auctioned in a state surplus sale in December 2024 on the condition that it be moved to a ...

Situated in the hills of Jammu, Poonch was surrounded by hostile forces by late 1947. In the popular memory of the 1947-48 conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, a few names dominate: Srinagar airlift, Badami ...

WASHINGTON (WCSC) — A former slave born in Georgetown County became the first Black man to serve as a member of U.S. House of Representatives when he was sworn in on Dec. 12, 1870. Joseph Hayne Rainey ...

The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, ...

Next July, the United States will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding, a milestone set to be celebrated across the country. American history will serve as the centerpiece of many of these ...

In 1950, New Yorkers watched in shock as a man in 19th-century clothes appeared in the middle of Times Square traffic. Moments later, he was struck by a car. When police searched him, they found coins ...

In his day, Frederick Douglass was known as one of the world’s most powerful orators, a piercing voice of conscience in the slave debate. On April 8, 1870, five years after the Civil War settled that ...

The college football world experienced quite the shakeup in Week 8, and perhaps no loss was more surprising than the one No. 2 Miami took to unranked Louisville. Onetime Heisman Trophy favorite Carson ...