By Iwuchukwu EzenwaforHistory is criminally silent over the devastating consequences and the indelible scars trailing the inhuman transatlantic slave trade spanning over a space of four centuries ...

Born to a Cape Girardeau plantation, Mary Hunter Giboney Houck managed Elmwood, backed her husband’s railroads, aided Confederate veterans and helped found Cape’s DAR chapter.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is sending troops into communities to help police fight illegal mining and gang violence.

Scientists say climate change is causing worsening droughts in the province, which draws tourists to its vineyards, beaches ...

Shady Grove Cemetery near Cape Girardeau traces Black life from slavery and Civil War service through Jim Crow, preserving the stories of newly freed families who built their own institutions.

Black history advocates are making efforts to preserve culture and education from what they see as an erosion and erasure of ...

If he runs, Zachary Mullock would join a field of four other Democratic candidates competing in the Republican-leaning Second District.

Jonathan W. Walker was one of many Cape Cod men whose early life was all about the sea, born in 1799, Harwich-born captain of ...

The question of slavery’s future figured prominently when the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787. Some delegates from Northern states hoped to banish the practice.

In 1796, when slavery remained both legal and common in New York, a white man named Aquila Giles set out to free Hannah, a 30-year-old woman he enslaved, and her daughter, Abigail, who was about 5.

In 1812, Spanish officials in Havana, searching the house of a man named José Antonio Aponte, discovered a wooden box hidden in a clothing trunk, opened it, and were stunned by what they found inside.

NAPERVILLE, IL / ACCESS Newswire / October 17, 2025 / In the layered silence between recorded history and lived truth, some voices vanish; and others fight their way back through time. Thomas Kline, ...