An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

CROWN POINT — The Lake County Sheriff's Department is reminding Region residents its officers never will call their phones demanding payment for arrest warrants or anything similar. Sheriff ...

The U.S. has a long record of writing racial exclusion into policy, with consequences that last for generations.

This excerpt from "Biking Uphill in the Rain" explores Seattle's resurgence in bicycle use in the 1970s, and the influences behind it (including an old railroad line).

They performed the most arduous and dangerous work despite racism, lower pay than white workers, curtailed food rations, and threats of violence from white railroad bosses. But in the famous 1869 ...

Chinese-American activist Corky Lee was a self-taught photojournalist who chose a camera as his tool for social change, ...

"Can you give me an idea of what train lines used these tracks?" Jon A. Russo asked Curious Louisiana. "Just when was the ...

You’ll wake up to understanding how developments in news and business across the globe overnight impacts you and affects your work day ahead in the Asia Pacific. Weekdays 7am – 10am (SIN / HK) ...

A Hamptons vacation and a prank gone wrong anchor Burke’s new book, “The Note.” It started with real life. The travel writer and essayist discusses his new book, “Aflame,” about his ...

Builders of the first transcontinental telegraph line and ... graded the streets of Toledo and built several miles of railroad in Missouri. They arrived in Omaha with other family members in ...

NEW YORK -- American Airlines launched the nation's first transcontinental jet passenger service today with a record-smashing Boeing 707 flight from Los Angeles to New York that shrank the nation ...