History

Sunday, June 28, 2026

Judge’s order halts Trump administration efforts to rewrite history

USA/Sunday Feature—   By Freda Ross, producer, Mississippi News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service.   The Trump administration has been ordered to return historical items to the Medgar and Myrtle Evers Home National Monument in Jackson, Mississippi. They were removed as part of a nationwide sweep of exhibits and signs the administration deemed “disparaging to Americans past or living.” Medgar […]
Sunday, June 21, 2026

Native Americans some of the first to toss the dice

USA/Sunday Feature—   By Eric Galatas, producer, Colorado News Connection, a bureau of Public News Service.   Native Americans on the western Great Plains were making and tossing dice 6,000 years before people in Africa, Asia, and Europe, according to new research at Colorado State University. Games of chance are considered the intellectual precursors to probability theory, statistics, and scientific thinking. […]
Monday, May 25, 2026

Remembering the fallen on Memorial Day

  USA/Memorial Day—       Before Memorial Day was recognized across America, freed Black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina gathered in 1865 to honor 257 Union soldiers who gave their lives fighting for freedom and the preservation of our nation. Black troops marched, families laid flowers, and a… pic.twitter.com/NhgIsITsR1 — Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) May 25, 2026   On Memorial […]
Monday, May 25, 2026

Camp Nelson National Monument honors sacrifice of black soldiers during Civil War

USA/Travel—   (StatePoint) When it comes to learning history, there is something about walking around a historical site that drives a lesson home in a way nearly impossible to replicate with films, books, and other media. Camp Nelson History For instance, there are thousands of pages written on the historical importance of places like Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Kentucky, where […]