On June 18, 1812, the War of 1812 began as the United States Congress approved, and President James Madison signed, a declaration of war against Britain. In 1778, American forces entered Philadelphia ...

The historic core of America's auto industry around Detroit still contains many counties with vehicle plants and high concentrations of export potential. The Carolinas' 20th-century textile mills ...

Massive nationwide protests against President Donald Trump’s administration are set to take place on Saturday under the ...

And if you pause the map and click on a dot ... and—by the end of the century—American activity. This hundred years—from approximately 1725 to 1825—is also the high-water mark of the ...

Local historians are awaiting the results of an archaeological survey done on a piece of property with tragic roots dating back to 1812.

Much of Mackinac Island was designated as a national park in 1875, but it proved to be too expensive for the government to maintain, so it was transferred to the State of Michigan in 1895 ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Here is an index map of 20 major timber types in the United States as ...

Fort Worth resident Crystal Betts holds a sign saying “We Will Vote You Out” after the Tarrant County Commissioners voted 3-2 ...

New World” and “Old World” are concepts still widely used to refer to the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, respectively, first adopted in European society after Christopher Columbus arrived in the ...

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The Bastrop City Council unanimously approved the city’s future land use map on Tuesday after a lengthy discussion on the specifics of proposed land use downtown. James Cowey, the city’s ...

Visitors to the Maidstone Bicentennial Museum on the weekend stepped back in time to 1812, when voyageurs cleaned deer skins while Indigenous warriors and British solders fended off American invaders.