As Kent State University prepares to commemorate the 54th anniversary of the May 4 shootings, some people can’t help but feel a sense of deja vu. Roseann "Chic" Canfora, who was an eyewitness to the ...

Kent’s long and colourful history has left us many legends, most of them born of real events. Local author Alan Bignell, whose latest book Our Kent features dozens of tales, guides you across the ...

Kent played a pivotal role in many of the most salient offensive and defensive operations of the Second World War. Read our potted history of a county in conflict. At times of continental conflict, ...

In a bare-walls classroom at Kent State University, guest speaker Alan Frank leans back in an office chair, his hands clasped around the back of his head, and poses a question to 30 students. “Let’s ...

At 361 years old, New Kent has more history than can be contained in the museum and research center at the Old Jail. The New Kent County Historical Society has been at work to preserve that history ...

KENT, Ohio — Roger Di Paolo and his classmates at Davey Junior High School were sent home early on Monday, May 4, 1970. School officials told the students that something had happened a few miles away, ...

The archives include a record of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's speeding offence Archives that stretch about 14km (9 miles) have been housed in a new library centre opened in Kent. The Kent History and ...