College and university records are great resources for family history research. These include yearbooks, catalogs, school newspapers, funera...

When my grandparents wanted to visit the coast, they drove 200 miles from Kannapolis, N.C., in the Piedmont region of the state, to "Th...

Courtesy of the  Katie Geneva Cannon Papers , Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia PA On this last day of Women’s History Month, I ...

Second from left is Cousin James "Tunesy" Fletcher (1935-2012). He was a member of the Southern Tones of Philadelphia. Back in his...

George Lewis Russell Sr., first cousin, two times removed, was the first black Assistant Chief Clerk for the U.S. House of Representatives a...

The new Lytle's Grove Rosenwald School, 1927  I used to love tagging along with my mother on her field trips through the Carolinas to ce...

  I've always considered myself a child of summer, but fall has a special place in my heart. Where I live, the days are still relatively...