Alabama town uses "Mockingbird" to learn from past
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MONROEVILLE, Alabama  - When Harper Lee wrote "To Kill A Mockingbird" she could not have known it would be hailed as a classic, much less that it would shape the way her hometown viewed its past.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb.
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History can help us keep faith in the public square in perspective.
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By JESSICA FLYNN South Wales Echo  Every community can tell a story of its history, as the finalists of this year's Echo Community Champion heritage award shows.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- In RV city, memories of the past are not far away at all. At the McGinnis camper, there&#39;s a 1996 national championship mailbox.
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Students at Aviation High School learn in the shadow of the massive jetliners this region has produced for decades. Holding classes at Boeing Field and the Museum of
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Believe it or not, the Alabama-Tennessee football rivalry used to be about football. It was the kind of rivalry people wrote books about.
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Return with me to yesteryear when the St. Johns River was used as a transportation corridor.  That could be the future as well as the past.
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The ballroom is decorated with floor-to-ceiling paintings of shiny soda fountains, classic cars and the old store windows downtown. A stoop juts out from a rendering of the high school facade, so graduates can sit and talk &#151; just like in the old days. And just like in the old days, not everyone in town is invited.
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American Indians are reconnecting to their heritage through a game that was invented by their ancestors.
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Leading Democratic presidential campaigners descend on Alabama town for civil rights anniversary.
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By Kimberly Hefling  GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes.
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Robert Saquet says he wants to contribute to Middleborough history by restoring a 155-year-old former schoolhouse next to his store, Eggers Furniture. But he needs the state's help.
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Boston, cradle of the American Revolution, is making some new history for itself these days.
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By Matt Sabo, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 21--YORK -- Since 1973, Rev. Dorothy Moore and members of her congregation have planted flowers and trees and mowed the grounds of a historic tract of land home to the crumbled foundational remains of Old Charles Parish Church.
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American students often get the impression from history classes that the British got here first, settling Jamestown, Va., in 1607. They hear about how white Northerners freed the black slaves, how Asians came in the mid-1800s to build Western railroads. The lessons have left out a lot.
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History looks primed to repeat itself.