Thomas Simpson, little known today, was for some time considered the man who would have discovered the Northwest Passage -- ...

Seattle Street Railways 1896 by Harry Foesig. Map scan by Andrew Filer. Seattle has a long history with rail public transit. This map was drawn by Harry Foesig and published in Leslie ...

Why won’t the huff and puff blow the house down? Not because it’s made of brick, but because determination does not falter, ...

National Republicans are ramping up their efforts to squeeze more GOP-friendly congressional seats ahead of the 2026 midterm ...

Trump is calling for a "new" census that excludes people in the U.S. without legal status. The 14th Amendment requires the "whole number of persons in each state" in a key set of census results.

California, a state in the Western United States, is positioned along the Pacific Coast. It holds the distinction of being ...

A number of the properties currently on evacuation order due to the Wesley Ridge wildfire will see residents allowed to ...

That intersection — Routes 30 or Lincoln Highway and 116 today, as we’ve noted — was known as the split-off for the Monocacy ...

A wildfire burning near Holyrood, N.L., has forced the closure of a part of Route 60 — a main road that runs through the ...

Key maps from the Texas General Land Office are now collected in a book published by University of Texas Press ...

Lehigh County became official in 1812. Allentown, its county seat, was known as Northampton Towne until 1838. What was life ...

Before railroads were established in Illinois, cattle and hog farmers drove their animals to livestock markets and processing ...