Outside the Washington Heights branch of the Public Library in Manhattan stands a metal post topped with an unassuming blue ...

A group of prominent businessmen with stakes in the Anaconda Mining Company hired Watkins to develop photographic evidence of ...

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Google Maps started as a project called Where 2 in 2004 by a Sydney-based team and quickly evolved into the beloved ...

Wheat production grew as new railroads connected farms and markets. In between 1875 and 1890, bonanza farms, as they were called, were created especially in the Red River Valley. They were funded by ...

President Trump has long celebrated William McKinley's tariff policies. Vintage photos show how they affected Americans.

An 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement found in Saskatchewan reshapes the understanding of North American civilizations.

Alfred Downing created accurate sketches of the banks and riverbed of the Columbia River. In 1880, he created a reasonably accurate outline sketch of the Waterville Plateau. He ...

We located a lost Indian Wars era Fort near El Paso in the Desert of West Texas using metal detectors. This site was known as Fort Stockton and was garrisoned by Buffalo Soldiers protecting stage ...