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Minnesota’s past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers. From the fur trade and the es...

Maine captures two worlds within its borders: the world of work and the world of leisure. Mainers live and work through the long, cold winters, sh...

For nearly 300 years, from its founding in the early 1700s to the present, Louisiana has been one of the most fascinating and culturally diverse ge...

The largest island in the continental United States, Long Island comprises Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties. With a rich history that...

Las Vegas—a Spanish word meaning "The Meadows" or "The Grasslands"—was established as a railroad town in 1905 and was officially incorporated in 19...

"I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since...

The vast lingering remnant of an ice age that came to a close more than 10,000 years ago, Lake Michigan has shaped the history of the settlements a...

For well over a century, the lure of scenic beaches and ocean waves have drawn visitors to the Jersey Shore. Presidents had summer homes where they...

Huntsville is an American city quintessentially founded upon change. From its birth to the present, Huntsville has consistently built and reshaped ...

The history of Hoboken, New Jersey, is an American blue-collar success story. Once a riverside getaway for New Yorkers, the port city of Hoboken de...

"To be a successful soldier you must know history. . . . What you must know is how man reacts. Weapons change but man who uses them changes not at ...

At the centennial of its founding by General Anthony Wayne in 1794, the city of Fort Wayne could boast prosperity and rapid growth as a leading ind...

In less than one hundred years, Fort Lauderdale grew from a wilderness stagecoach stop and trading post to become one of America's favorite tourist...

Today, we're familiar with the major theme parks which charge families hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line for moments of thrills on technolo...

When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him "one of this epoch’s great molders of style,” praising his viv...

El Paso is a city with an international history and culture that is tied to the Rio Grande. Native Americans followed the river and traded with oth...

Dwight David Eisenhower is famous as both a soldier and as a statesman. Like George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant, Eisenhower the soldier command...

In 1950 Detroit was the fifth most populous city in the United States with 1.8 million people living within its boundaries. Its downtown streets bu...

In 1950 Dallas was a spirited Texas town of some regional importance; by 1980 it was an international city, one of the nation’s most populous, a ce...

Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors. Early Indian tribes, trappers and hunters, the railroad builders, gold and sil...

In Chicago, as wherever Christmas is celebrated, holiday traditions reflect both universal themes and local color, both the spirit of giving and sn...

Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surroun...

The history of theater in New York is captured in the images of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing A...

With a history tied to the Mississippi River, Baton Rouge has grown from its colonial past as a military outpost favored by the French, English, an...