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Historian and author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Va., will present an online program on “Civil War Railroads” 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table. The ...

HAMBURG, Pa. - An exhibit at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg transports guests back to the Civil War era, taking a look at the role of the region's railroads during and after the ...

Eric Arnesen is emerging as one of the most original and independent-minded historians of American labor. The author of a fine book on dockworkers in New Orleans and a famous article discrediting the ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the Hill ...

The Great Financial Panic of 1873 - Closing the door of the Stock Exchange on its members, Saturday, Sept. 20th. Library of Congress Since the end of the Civil War, railroad construction in the United ...

"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed Black ...

Using metal detectors, we explore ground shaped by railroads and the Civil War, uncovering relics that connect modern landscapes to forgotten moments in American history. Iran fires live missiles into ...

Local historian John Morris will present “An Underground Railroad Operator: Abraham Morris and his family in the Civil War” when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table meets 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, ...