In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

Long sold as a cheeky gift in European candy shops, chocolate sardines are making their way stateside (and making a splash) ...

Feb. 27 — In 1869, John Willis Menard rose from his seat in the chamber of the U.S. Congress to defend his status as the ...

Americans don’t have royalty, a class of people considered better than others, because we don't visualize things that, unlike title-obsessed Europeans.

The installation, "Umbrella of Color," by students in Glasgow Middle School's talented visual arts program will run through ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...

Demographers debate exactly when it will happen, but there is a consensus now that in the second half of this century, the ...

My, oh my, how summer flies! It seems like just yesterday we were (at least I was) grumbling about the cold weather that simply wouldn’t abate. In fact, it was one of the coldest winters and ...

Black History figures everyone should know about For too many years, history books have focused on the achievement of White ...

This year's Centenary of the biennial RORC Rolex Fastnet Race hits the spot for such a large and varied constituency that ...

Show features paintings by ‘archaeo-nerd’ ...

A wrap-up of news from around Iowa this past week, including legislative bill hearings, new ownership for a business in Waterloo and state board approval for a Cedar Rapids casino.