History

Renovations at a Mason brewery may have unearthed a small treasure from the past.Workers are digging up BAD Brewing Company's back patio while the business works to add a commercial kitchen.In the process, they've found plenty of scraps, including broken dishes and bits of pottery.But the brewery's owner Brian Rasdale says they also hit something more surprising — an intact, earth-colored jar buried 6 feet underground.

The history of boarding schools for Indian children is described, by those who experienced it, to be horrific. Many say it has caused them generational trauma.

In 1926, George Morrow dropped a bottle with a note in the Cheboygan River, instructing the potential finder to return it to him. Now, 95 years later, the…

The team looking for the oldest shipwreck in the Great Lakes says there’s a “high probability” they’ve found it.Steve Libert released a book this week…

Long before COVID 19 coverage dominated media coverage, newspaper headlines were focusing on another global crisis. Frank Boles, director of the Clarke…

A new bill in the state house would require that African American history become a part of Michigan’s K-12 curriculum.The bill would create a commission…

A recent study out of Ann Arbor looks at the history of dogs in the U.S., and how the ancestors of the pooch laying on your floor - or your couch -…

Michigan prepares to celebrate it’s one-hundred and eighty-first birthday on January 26th and this year party planners are inviting an old friend --…

Mastodons once moved freely in Michigan and next week in Midland one will be moving again. Manny is a replica skeleton of a juvenile mastodon. It’s…

Museum visits can be educational and a fun day out of the classroom for students. But the cost of transportation may discourage schools from planning too…