Illustration: shamrocks and stars for St. Patrick’s Day

St. Patrick Was an Engineer!

By Melissa Berry on March 14, 2025

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry describes a St. Patrick’s Day tradition that has been celebrated at engineering schools for more than 120 years... (Read More)

Photo: Autherine Lucy in a press conference with Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Thurgood Marshall, Director and Special Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2 March 1956. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

On This Day: African American Fights Exclusion from Univ. of Alabama

By Tony Pettinato on February 7, 2018

An article about Autherine Lucy, who in February 1956 became the first African American student to attend a white university or public school in Alabama... (Read More)

Photo: a classroom at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines. Credit: Malate269; Wikimedia Commons.

Genealogy 101: School Yearbooks

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 22, 2017

In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega writes about a family history source often overlooked by genealogists: school yearbooks... (Read More)

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