Some neighborhoods used to be independent communities. Others started out artificially. And some simply don't exist any more.

For a truly unique stay, the McCully House Inn dates back to 1861 and claims to be the oldest operating inn in Oregon. Each ...

Middle Street forms the heart of downtown, its beautifully preserved storefronts housing everything from high-end antique emporiums to delightfully chaotic thrift shops where patience rewards the ...

St. Patrick’s Day, the annual celebration of all things Irish, is being marked in cities across the country on Monday with ...

During the 2024 Presidential Elections, much was made about the importance of the Rust Belt, a strip of northern states that ...

"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

Trump signed a new executive order this month to decrease reliance on foreign lumber. The order could result in the felling ...

As Madame Renards' balloon was being inflated, it suddenly burst into flames. While one unfortunate bystander had his ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Institute of Technology is sharing history through technology in a kind of time travel experience. RIT's 3D digital design program created an interactive virtual reality ...

inhabited by 19th-century moguls in such industries as textiles, finance, sugar, opium, coal. The flexible category proves a rich source of material in scholarly essays collected by Juliet Carey ...

Readers may wish that the maps, grouped at the front of the book ... is because the partition of the late 19th century was not a dramatic break with all that had gone before.

If you think hordes speed-walking around the city holding huge Starbucks cups is the height of urban hubbub, it has nothing on the hustle and bustle of the 19th century capital. ‘People ran ...