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If you think the rivalry between St. Paul and Minneapolis is petty now, get a load of what happened on this day back in 1890.
As the Chicago area prepares for a stretch of extreme heat, one historic farm in the western suburbs is offering a reminder of how families kept cool before the invention of air conditioning.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, comprised of women in the United States and around the ... D.C. on this day in history, Oct. 11, 1890. Its motto is "God, Home and Country." ...
Dating from 1940, this photograph depicts a sign at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, South Dakota, where 250 American Indians were killed in 1890 ... the encroaching U.S. government charged ...
For the first 23 years of Sequoia National Park's existence, prior to the creation of the National Park Service (NPS) in 1916, the area was guarded by the U.S. Army Calvary troops and administered ...
The third governor of the Oklahoma Territory, Abraham Jefferson Seay, lived in a three-story mansion west of Kingfisher ...
gt;>> This photo album was created by who we think was a Columbus resident in the 1890s, roughly 1894 to 1898. And this photo album is particularly remarkable because it gives us lots of ...