Woolson would turn 108 on Feb. 11, 1955, and Frances Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kobus, Woolson's son-in-law and daughter, would turn 5 the following week.

Born in New York City in 1810, Bushrod Birch spent time on and off in Pittsfield before serving in the Civil War, and returned to Pittsfield shortly before his death ...

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The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...

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Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

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The car exploded beside a lorry carrying mostly female agricultural workers outside Manbij. Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named "transitional" president after leading the overthrow of the Assad regime ...

Tim Miller, former RNC Spokesman and host of The Bulwark Podcast and Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Professor, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the infighting among ...

However, there are still “History Happenings” to enjoy in the month of February, including Tipton-Haynes and the Tri-Cities Civil War Round Table.

Olympian Shawn Johnson East gave husband Andrew East her honest review after he decided to take out a billboard of her bikini body for her birthday. “I don’t [like it] — at all,” Johnson ...

Most crossing the border are South Sudanese nationals who had previously fled from civil war in the world’s newest country, the statement noted. “The people of South Sudan continue to show ...