On Nov. 14, 1889, New York World reporter and Western Pa. native Nellie Bly started a 25,000-mile journey around the world, inspired by the popular Jules Verne book “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Nearly 131 years later, we’re sharing her adventures in real time. Follow her thrilling journey around the globe here now through […]
Join the NC Maritime Museum at Southport in taking a deeper look into what it was like to work in the longest running crab factory in Southport, C.B. Caroon Crab Factory. The seafood industry has a rich history in Southport, NC. A great deal of the work on and off of the water was done […]
Remembering Lincoln: How did people around the United States feel after the death of President Abraham Lincoln? What did they say? Browse through their responses as they dealt with a time of uncertainty and grief.
Explore the Garden at the Murray-Dick-Fawcett House. The small lot, which contains 1770s timber frame and brick dwelling, and a small garden, was one of the few buildings in existence in the area during the American Revolution. Reflect on the formation of our nation in this urban garden.
Listen to John Levy discuss his experiences as a jazz musician during the time of segregation and explore other relevant sources.
Wendy Oxenhorn speaks about her work with Children of Substance, an organization formed to help the children of substance abusers, and Street News, a newspaper created to provide legitimate employment for NYC panhandlers.
On the night of January 21, 1897, a white mob attacked the home of George Dinning, a formerly enslaved farmer in Simpson County, Kentucky. As the crowd fired their guns into his house, Dinning shot back in self-defense, killing a young man. “So began one of the strangest legal episodes in American history – one […]
How do you decolonize your diet to honor traditional foodways? Join Chef Nico Albert to learn about her efforts to revitalize indigenous cuisine and connect even more deeply to her community in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma through indigenous ingredients and traditional foods.
Click through an exploration of the first inhabitants of the Lower Cape Fear in North Carolina, what became of these early tribes, and what we learn from them today.
Celebrate with The Washington Revels Jubilee Voices ensemble for Juneteeth. The vocal group is committed to the preservation of African American history and traditions–presenting songs and stories of struggle and perseverance, trials, and triumphs, as expressed through a cappella music, drama, and dance. This concert will feature the ensemble singing at sites important to Alexandria’s […]
OurStoryBridge, at www.ourstorybridge.org, is a free resource and tool kit for producing an online, crowdsourced, community story project and is designed to help libraries, historical societies, issue-related organizations, and others create their own story projects using Adirondack Community at www.myadirondackstory.org as a model. Take a look at the Tool Kit to understand how to start an online […]
During weekends and summers in the pre-Stonewall era, gay men and women, including many New Yorkers, traveled to the secluded beach town of Cherry Grove on Fire Island where they found opportunities for sexual exploration and self-expression—behavior that was both stigmatized and criminalized in the straight world.