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Blackberry winter waits just around the corner, at the end of April. How do we know? Swelling flower buds on the wild canes in [...]

Beale Street in Memphis thrived in the shadow of Jim Crow from the 1890s to 1960s, one of many such districts in cities across [...]

On January 29, 1918, E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Company and the U.S. government embarked on building a massive factory and town along Hadley’s [...]

“My memories of the week before Christmas are dashing into the house, after hiking from school, to smell the sweet fragrance of Christmas cooking…,” [...]

“Today is not Friday the thirteenth,” read the August 8, 1941 issue of Clarksville’s Leaf-Chronicle, “but Friday the ‘eighth of August’ which is almost [...]

Hernando de Soto and his private army emerged from the dense forest of the Blue Ridge at the end of May in 1540, and [...]

In the beginning of the 19th century, Santa Claus was depicted as a stern disciplinarian, often holding a switch. He wrote letters warning children [...]