An overland journey north was an impractical choice for many who sought to escape bondage. Some fugitives took to the sea.

Train robbery loot from 1870 and a basket gift from the Washoe Tribe to President Wilson are among the treasures lost over the past 180 years.

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IDAHO FALLS – As Catholics all over the world react to the election of the church’s first American pope, members of other ...

About 30 years ago, while researching a book on the Susquehanna River, the Scribbler interviewed a farmer named Faber ...

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Words poured from his fingers as he wrote. Words rushed through his mind on his long night walks (“the body strode on ...

Ellis Rowan (1848-1922) and Rosa Fiveash (1854-1938) were near contemporaries, one in Victoria and the other in South ...

The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book Politische Geographie (Political ...

HAZARD, Ky. and FRANKFORT, Ky. and DANVILLE, Ky. and LANCASTER, Ky., May 12, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kentucky First Federal ...

He's the first to admit it. "I really don't," he says. "That's not why I wrote this book." The new book in question from the prolific gagillion-selling author of thrillers (OK, for the record ...