Call it the original "Great Escape." On May 13, 1862, just over a year into the Civil War, an enslaved man named Robert Smalls, who labored on a Confederate steamer in South Carolina's Charleston ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

BRAINERD —Crow Wing County entered into a contract with Borden Excavating Inc. for the reconstruction of County Road 115 from the south Highway 371 intersection to the north Highway 371 intersection.

One of Middle Tennessee’s roughest roads is soon going to see some relief. TDOT on Friday provided an update on the timeline and impact of the I-440 project. Starting in November, preliminary ...