Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

In this forest thick with trees up to 600 years old lives the southernmost population of the California condor (Gymnogyps californianus), the only one outside the United States. Dozens of the ...

Library events: Leon County celebrates Black History Month with library events, resources ...

That's why White and his team point to places like Farnsworth House and Monks Mound in Cahokia, near St. Louis. The prehistoric earthen mound has been slumping, and experiencing accelerated erosion, ...

History certainly is a wonderful thing. The stories, the people, and the places all return to life for a brief moment when we take a little time to explore the past – especially when it took ...

Some downtown business owners and council members say it can be challenging to balance historic preservation with business ...

Out of nearly 5,000 “Rosenwald” schools built to educate African American students in the south, approximately 500 remain.

It hasn’t been used much in recent years, but last summer, Mayor Harvey Ward and a developer began talking about plans to ...

Diamonds to the announcement by the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission that Eckley Miners’ Village will get the overdue attention it deserves, this time focusing on the site’s coal breaker.

Questions have been raised regarding the legality and the wisdom of altering the exterior of a historic site that has been at the heart of Kenya’s history and governance.

The State Appellate Court threw a wrench into the city’s plan to demolish the Pike Plan on Thursday, Feb. 6, by granting a temporary restraining order against demolishing the canopies on Wall and ...

Women artists feature in new additions to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Historic Artists' Homes and Studios ...