In 1937, George Conrad, Jr. was interviewed by the WPA's Federal Writer's Project. Born in slavery on February 23, 1860 at Connversville,...

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

Two miles south of Blevins (Hempstead County, Arkansas) along the old Blevins to Washington Road, once sat the Blevins Training School, a...

Tatums (Carter County, Oklahoma) is one of the few 'all black towns' still extant in Oklahoma. It shared its location at Wildhorse Creek...

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace history. And the history gathered from a tombstone needn't be from your...

In January of 2002, Shreveport resident William Hines, who was one of the city's first African American police officers, gave an oral...

Oak Hill Industrial School in 1905 was established for freed people, formerly enslaved by the Choctaws, near today’s Valliant in Indian...

Farmers Improvement College near Ladonia, Fannin County, Texas. (Baylor University) In 1906, a group of civic leaders put their...

Lucinda Davis, a person enslaved by the Creeks and a resident of former Indian Territory, was interviewed and photographed by the Federal...

The well-built little school in Roosevelt, built by the Works Progress Administration, had two entrances – one for girls, and one for...

(Library of Congress) A geological map of coal claims around Coalgate, Coal County, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) from ca. 1900 shows that...

Tombstones, especially military ones, are great ways to trace histrory. And the history from the tombstone needn’t be a family member,...

In 1958, Martin Luther King, Jr.  met with community and NAACP leaders to formulate a school integration plan at the (old) Galilee...

I love strolling through cemeteries – the older and more overgrown, the better, of course. I’m not particularly ghoulish, though. I just...