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 ...

A historian looks at the plague that hit Ancient Athens and explains how a massive government spending plan backfired 2,500 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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; ...

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 ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Pride Month in Athens today consists of a parade, drink specials, several locations ...

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 ...