THIS WEEK IN HISTORY – 1940 ...

From Horn Lake history to an examination of absentee ballots in a runoff for Circuit Court Judge, here's what was making ...

MLK Day is on Jan. 19 in 2026. As a federal holiday, all banks, courts and most non-essential services will be closed.

On the University of Alabama campus, you’ll see one year referenced over and over: 1831. The school opened for business and began classes April 18, 1831. But it was actually founded a decade earlier ...

Lebanon’s civil war is a taboo subject. A group of Christians and Muslims is broaching it. Eight somber Muslims sat around white plastic tables on the gold-tinged red carpet of Sayyida Aisha Mosque in ...

Every day has a story hidden in history. Have you ever wondered what happened on December 17 that made the date special? Every year, people around the world look back to remember events that changed ...

Picture this: You’re a program manager at Microsoft in 2012. Your inbox is flooded with hundreds of feature requests from engineers across the company. Most are complex, resource-intensive ideas that ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

Fort Smith, 1943: The Arkansas and Poteau rivers were at high flood stage, but the Army from Camp Chaffee came to help. A pontoon bridge was constructed using rubber rafts for the support. Support ...

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Dec. 3, according to the Tribune’s archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. The planned U-shaped stadium for Grant ...

On January 6, 1955, Oak Grove Elementary school students wrote a letter protesting the closure of the trolley line from Oregon City to Portland. The restoration of one of the oldest and most ...