SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO Nearly 25 years after joining the mission docent program John Tattam is still going strong, having led 121 visitor tours last year, the most in the program. Being caught up in the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will pay tribute to four of the museum’s longest-serving docents during a special May 4 ceremony. The annual ceremony is the museum’s effort to ...

One way to learn history is through reenactment, something 10 middle-school students, junior docents at Josiah Dennis Manse in Dennis, know firsthand. In acknowledgment of these girls’ contribution to ...

Historical interpretation, if done with accuracy and precision, can be a most demanding endeavor. With less than a handful of paid staff, the Great Bridge Battlefield and Waterways Museum relies ...

Visitors entering the Allen County Courthouse often pause beneath the stained-glass dome, gazing upward at the ornate architecture and detailed artwork that define one of Fort Wayne’s most ...

The Hagen History Center has scheduled docent/guide training sessions April 15 and April 17 at its education center on the second floor of the Wood-Morrison House. The History Center, 356 W. Sixth St.

When Mary Alice Rheman talks about growth in the Katy area, she speaks as an eyewitness. The 85-year-old Green Trails Oaks resident has lived in the area for more than 40 years. She and her late ...

About 90 years ago, just after New Year’s, in the dark of the Great Depression, the Chicago Board of Education began rooting through its proposed $93 million budget, eager to trim $7 million. It was ...