The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

AN uneasy peace existed in the settlement at the headwaters of the Connecticut River known as Indian Stream. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed this territory ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

While her activities as a Civil War spy are less well known, her devotion to America and its promise of freedom endured ...

The USS Constellation is a well-known Civil War ship, the last all-sail warship built by the United States Navy.

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...

Crew on site in January collecting images for National Endowment for the Humanities project creating historic graffiti ...

A look at slavery through the eyes of a young woman named Harriet, who was sold at auction in 1861 to pay for her white owner's debt.

We are highlighting the history of African Americans in Colorado and how they shaped our past. We looked at the city's ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.