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Livingston County historian highlights local ties to Underground Railroad
PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...
Toast, Trees and a Wassailing Queen: An Ancient English Ritual Is Back
The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.
Smithsonian Magazine1d
For Centuries, Indigenous People Lived in These Desert Canyons. Now, New Technology Reveals Extraordinary Details About This Sacred Site
In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...
The Incredible History Of The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway - USA's Longest Bridge
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and its interesting history match the growth of twentieth-century New Orleans.
3 Controversial Maps From History
Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...
Summit County4d
Summit Historical Society is on a mission to digitize its collection of about 1,000 historic maps
The Summit Historical Society has launched a project to digitize the historic maps in its collection. Summit Historical ...
CERN6d
A short history of the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...