Twenty-seven people died as a result of the wreck, and what happened is only known because of its lone survivor.

In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...

It just happened to be one of the large ports on the east coast that their ships ... immigrants endured a life nothing short of slavery when they started to arrive here from the 1650s onwards. By ...

The Julian Historical Society has acquired several historic sites now open as museums, including the Washington Mine, the Santa Ysabel School at Witch Creek (moved to Julian near the Pioneer Museum), ...

His Sag Harbor days have always been spent in the neighborhood called Eastville, an enclave of Black residents, Native Americans and European immigrants that dates to the early 1800s, and remains ...

On April 23, another Christian service was held there for ships’ officers and sailors ... Kanoho said. In 1849, a German immigrant named Heinrich Hackfeld and his brother-in-law, J. C. Pflueger, ...

Born under the shackles of slavery, Harriet Tubman refused to accept a life where she wasn't free. Even after escaping, she ...