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The Future Teacher Academy is a cooperative effort designed to help students explore teaching as a possible career.

The Illinois House Redistricting Committee held its first hearing last week on new congressional and judicial subcircuit district maps at the Michael Bilandic Building in Chicago. Another half-dozen hearings were

June 12, 1873: The Herald and Tribune opined, “The people in several districts are talking of building school houses (sic). This is a good indication. Our houses in most cases

Lumber had originally drawn people to the area, and sawmills continued to thrive, but the rough-and-tumble town of the late 1800s had matured to the point of being a hub for railroads, bringing freight and passengers and taking huge loads of lumber away.

News and stories from the pages of The Chronicle-Express 150, 100, 75, and 50 years ago.

By Erin Harney alabamanewscenter.com In the recently released “From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925,” author Joseph Caver brings to light new information about the founding in a detailed history of one of the country’s earliest historically black universities. Caver is a former senior archivist at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, a history lecturer at Alabama State University (ASU) and he w...

12:12 pm UTC Mar. 2, 2021 Arthur Madison didn’t sound like a man who had lost his law license. “We have won a great victory,” he told a crowd gathered outside a Montgomery courthouse on April 19, 1944, speaking “briefly, dramatically and heroically,” in the words of one newspaper.  Show caption Hide caption Arthur Madison as seen in the 1910 Bowdoin Bugle, the yearbook for Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Madison was one of only three Black students... Arthur Madison as seen in t...

From Marion to Montgomery sheds new light on the founding, history of Alabama State University By Erin Harney February 26, 2021 Lincoln School in Marion, Perry County, c. 1870-1899. The Lincoln School was one of the first institutions established for the education of African Americans after the Civil War. (Lincoln Normal School, Brantley Collection, Samford University Library, D-000108) In the recently released “From Marion to Montgomery: The Early Years of Alabama State University, 1867-1925...

by KAREN SCANLON San Diego Community News Group Published - 02/17/21 - 07:00 AM | 2124 views | 0   | 27   |  John Henry Turpin on the deck of USS Bennington in the hours following the boiler explosion that took 66 lives. One of only a few Black sailors in the U.S. Navy at the time, Turpin survived two shipboard explosions. (Photo courtesy San Diego History Center.)slideshow February marks Black History Month and San Diego History Center has launched ...

CHARLESTON — The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org.