DENVER, Colorado, July 26 -- The History Colorado issued the following news release: * * * Annual awards honor exemplary and impactful historical projects in La Plata and Jefferson Counties. * * * History Colorado is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Miles and Bancroft Awards. Named after former Colorado Historical Society Volunteer President, Josephine H. Miles, and local Colorado historian, Caroline Bancroft, these awards are presented annually since 1987 to some of the most exem  more

BUFFALO, New York, July 27 -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: At some point, likely during the warmer months of 1849, laborers began digging a trench on an empty lot on what was then Michigan "Street" in the city of Buffalo. This builder's trench was a temporary workspace to accommodate masons laying the limestone foundation for a new church. That groundbreaking, unaccompanied by ceremony, was the first step in building the Michigan S  more