04/08/2019 - 09:16
The weather is warmer, flowers are in bloom, and suddenly everyone is outdoors. But there is one more reason to celebrate April: It is a good time for jazz.
04/02/2019 - 09:04
You may think you know baseball’s history: Abner Doubleday, Civil War hero, was the inventor of the great American pastime. Right or wrong?
03/19/2019 - 08:54
As the 2020 presidential election fires up, we are reminded again (and again) of how partisan our politics have become. The backbiting. The charges and counter-charges. The gridlock.
03/04/2019 - 09:02
Mary Eliza Church Terrell graduated from Oberlin College
in 1884, becoming one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree.
02/08/2019 - 11:09
The movie industry was new and exciting – if primitive and unpolished – in 1914 when World War I began.
12/18/2018 - 09:44
Right about now, television and local theater companies are mounting production after production of A Christmas Carol.
12/04/2018 - 22:01
With his passing, much has been said in appreciation of the late President George H.W. Bush.
11/11/2018 - 10:47
The beginning of the end of World War I occurred on Nov. 11, 1918, 100 years ago today, when guns fell silent, poetically enough, at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month.
10/21/2018 - 22:23
The year 2019 will mark two pivotal anniversaries for the commonwealth of Virginia -- and for the United States.
09/24/2018 - 09:35
More than 200 years ago today, the founding generation enacted the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing the federal court system.
