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

Tucked amidst the towering structures of Cleveland’s University Circle, an old brick house stands as a testament to the ...

The railroad was a technological risk-taker ... carpeted floors and elaborately painted ceilings. But in the 1850s, safety was a more basic concern. Locomotives were safe enough if the boiler ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became ... In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white ...

on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025. Ryan C. Hermens rhermens@herald-leader.com By the 1850s, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad had been chartered, making it Kentucky’s first interstate standard carrier ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

Johnson City Rail Experience is a multi-dimensional celebration of railroad culture, history and imagination with large model ...