Why do we study history? Why do we care about what happened in the past? This is a question that in only my second year of teaching, I have al…
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It seems that we are in one of those periods of time when future historians, sociologists, and anthropologists will have plenty to study. This…
An interesting program is coming to the Oelwein Public Library just in time for the Halloween season. While ghosts and goblins are among the i…
DES MOINES — The Marine Corps on Thursday corrected the identity of a second man in the iconic photograph of U.S. forces raising an American f…
VINTON – Over the next few months, local historians will be helping assemble "Our Proud Past" as a way to honor the businesses in our communit…
'What do you mean that America's youth know little about George Washington, except that he was a slave owner?'