THE KLAN'S BEGINNING The first Klan was established on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convene...

Micajah "Big" Harpe, born Joshua Harpe (c.1748-1799), and Wiley "Little" Harpe, born William Harpe (c.1750-1804), were m...

SOME ILLINOIS FACTS Origin of the name Illinois: Algonquin for "tribe of superior men." Illinois is known as the Prairie State. IL...

The human settlement of the American Bottom region goes back to ancient Native Americans and their settlement in Cahokia . Europeans beginn...

Hardin County in Illinois was formed in 1839, but the natural centerpiece of the whole county was first see n by European eyes a hundred yea...

The American hero, George Rogers Clark, had just seized the French village of Kaskaskia from the British and now turned his sights on Vincen...