In October 1854, a large crowd in Worcester, Massachusetts took action against the presence of "slave catcher" Asa O. Butman ...

Ending birthright citizenship would not solve our nation's immigration crisis, and it would only make the problem worse.

Across centuries and continents, formidable fires once threatened to destroy three major cities: Rome, London and Chicago.

Multiple piers have come and gone along the Santa Cruz coast, and in the last two columns I have slowly meandered south from ...

Salvage Company Finds Location of One of the Worst Maritime Disasters, Ship Carried Gold Cargo Worth Millions 2025 marked the ...

STONE: On a Navy ship alone. GATES: Mm-Hmm ... They're Sharon's fourth great-grandparents, and we found them in the 1850 census for Pennsylvania. STONE: Alexander McElhaney, 73.

Neither side knew that gold had recently been discovered at the sawmill Swiss immigrant John Sutter was ... accessible to the California coast by ship. Thousands of people from the Sandwich ...

On November 4, 1875, the S.S. Pacific left Victoria, BC. on its regular run to San Francisco, CA. Along with about 275 passengers, the American steamship had a crew of 52, led by Jefferson Davis ...

In 1630 John Winthrop, the first governor, settled in Charlestown with a group of English colonists, some of whom eventually relocated across the Charles River to what became Boston. In Charlestown, ...