The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...

Genealogist Neicy DeShields-Moulton, who traces her roots in the United States back 200 years, spoke about members of her ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors ... fugitive slave who had been captured. During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union ...

Russian Civil War propaganda had a bold and convincing style. Posters adorned urban sites, while trains draped in patriotic colors steamed through the countryside. Propaganda media brought land ...

Jay Cooke's firm had been the government's chief financier of the Union military effort during the Civil War. The firm then became a federal agent in the government financing of railroad construction.