MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - This Day in History, an earthquake with a 4.7 magnitude slammed the city of Memphis. Between 1851 and ...

Dear Editor: Juneteenth is celebrated every June 19, memorializing that date in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger read orders in Galveston, Texas, stating that all previously enslaved people in ...

There are multiple dates that could be singled out, depending on the geographic location of the enslaved person. The Civil War, fought over slavery, ended in April 1865, but the end of slavery was ...

1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel’s intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism ...

Juneteenth originated in Galveston, Texas, when enslaved people were told of their emancipation on this day in history, June 19, 1865. Texas was the first state to make it an official celebration.

President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination is one of the saddest events in American history. Yet on the morning of April 14, 1865, the President awoke in an uncommonly good mood. One day less ...

An April 1865 photo of the graves of Union soldiers buried at the race course-turned-Confederate-prison where historians believe the earliest Memorial Day ceremony took place. Civil war ...

The 1865 Project plans to complete the unfinished work the Freedman’s Bank set out to do during the country’s Reconstruction Era. Founded by President Abraham Lincoln and social reformer ...

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Rather, it's an original photograph from 1865 mounted on a card, showing nine players and a manager. The Library of Congress said last month it was aware of only two copies of the photo.

Throughout 1865, Henry Mosler kept a small, iPhone-sized diary filled with the faces of people he saw during his travels as a Civil War illustrator for Harper’s Weekly.

1865 Brewing Company, first Black-owned brewery in Hampton Roads, to close after 2 years In a Facebook post, 1865 Brewing Company's management said it hasn't been able to establish a sustainable ...