When the Lone Star State was finally inducted into the United States proper, its newly-minted citizens became subject to the almighty census. Digging through the University of Virginia's handy ...

Have you ever meet a tinsmith, cooper, limeburner, trader, or stone mason? No? You are not alone! These professions, once common in 1850s Cape Girardeau County, have become extinct or extremely rare.

Editor’s note: The following information was taken from the book “50th Anniversary of the Port Lavaca Wave,” by Bobby Joe Paul. The book published about 70 years ago. In 1850 Port Lavaca was known ...

When she first saw the page, at home on her computer, Allison Seyler stopped. “It was a jarring moment,” she said, one that forced her to pause and think about what she was looking at. It was an 1850 ...

I recently discovered that I have an ancestor listed as “mulatto” on the 1850 and 1860 census records. Her name is Amelia “Millie/Milly” A. Moreland, born in 1818 in Virginia. She is listed as living ...

“I have traced my great-grandfather, Kinchen Bell, back on the 1850 Census Slave Schedule for Kentucky. He is listed in the slave owners’ column and indicated as being black. There is an adult female ...

In June 1915, the famous movie director Cecil B. de Mille was filming in the San Fernando Valley. Nearby was an old house where trash was being burned. De Mille noticed a thick pad of folded papers ...

One hundred fifty years ago this month — July 4, 1851 — Howard County gained it political “freedom” from Anne Arundel County, an event county groups have marked with a year long festival of subdued ...