Faced with the brunt of the Great Depression, the Hoover deportations marked a nadir in American 20th century policy.

The idea for a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait, where the Pacific Ocean flows into the bay in Northern California, was first floated in 1872 by railroad ... of the Great Depression—and ...

In May of 1882, Congress codified these fears into law by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, which banned Chinese people from ...

Constructed in 1907, the three-story Balch Hotel is the tallest building in Dufur (not including the grain elevator, of ...

Troops have been previously deployed in the U.S. by presidents, including George H.W. Bush and John F. Kennedy.

A group of Franklin County residents is fighting against what some call an invasion of industrial solar sites. They believe ...

Ford’s Model T and the increasing popularity of the automobile, along with the Great Depression, led to the demise of the Valparaiso and Northern Interurban Railroad, along with many others.

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International ...

During the Civil War, as the nation’s existence was imperiled, work on the first transcontinental railroad began. During the Great Depression, when our economy tanked, California built the San ...

Ball Ground, named for Cherokee Indians’ stickball game played in the mid-1700s, became a railroad town in 1882 ... from the impacts of the Great Depression. The marble industry suffered ...

The dawn of the 1960s hinted at seismic changes for the country and the beleaguered mining community of Park City. Until 1963, the town’s economy depended exclusively on mining. Since the Great ...