There was euphoria on the streets of New York’s Little Egypt district, in Queens, on Friday after Hosni Mubarak announced his resignation. People waved flags, honked car horns, and hugged strangers.

The southern nib of Illinois, rimmed by the Nile-broad rivers Ohio and Mississippi, and containing places called Cairo, Thebes. Joppa, has long been known as Little Egypt. Hard-working Little Egyptian ...

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On a small patch of land once owned by former slaves, a pair of Richland College professors is digging up the past. No idea what, if anything, they might unearth. But what history professor Clive ...

A few years ago, Jerry McCoy received a phone call from an unfamiliar number. On the other end of the line was Clive Siegle, a Richland College history professor working on a project with his class.

DALLAS -- Egypt, the first families named it, to symbolically recall their delivery from servitude. Almost 100 years later, they tasted freedom again, this time from the neglect of a city that had ...

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Picture peppy cartoon characters singing the blues and that would pretty much capture the odd incongruity of book and music in the world-premiere musical "Little Egypt." Add to that a tectonic tonal ...

KERA’s great reporter Bill Zeeble takes a look at how a couple of professors at Richland College and their students are rescuing the history of the rural community founded by former slaves Hanna and ...