Oct. 29—On Jan. 4, 2023, the Athens News Courier began its 150th volume — the number that correlates to the number of years a newspaper has published. Typically a newspaper's volume number would ...

July 26, 2004 -- The city of Athens is glowing with fresh paint and crowded with shining limousines as Greece prepares to host the 2004 Olympic Games. Western culture owes a lot to the Greeks -- they ...

On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of Sparta, Archidamus, was summoned to address a clash between the Corinthians and Athenians. Corinth, an ally of Sparta, warned that ...

Kimberly Davis can trace her family's roots in Athens back four generations. Her lineage is a point of pride. But she knows not everybody feels that way. "Let's be honest: A lot of people don't want ...

As a defender of these ideals, Brutus did not see himself as a conspirator or a traitor. Greek concepts of tyranny, virtue, ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863, but enslaved people all ...

"The Tangible Past in Athens, Georgia" is a big book in more ways than one. It's big in size - 635 oversized pages filled with 18 essays by 13 authors; some 700 photographs both modern and historic; ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. February is Black History Month, a yearly observance held to honor the achievements ...

In 1982, Grace Elizabeth Hale arrived at her freshman dorm at the University of Georgia with a sailor dress and an add-a-bead necklace, and promptly went out for sorority rush. Five years later, she ...

Late this summer, I wrote in Slate about my sad lack of knowledge of local history, and resolved to learn more about the place where I live: Athens, Ohio. I put together a series of open-ended ...