Local History

This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for ...

While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of Americas healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations...

Portland, Oregon, though widely regarded as a liberal bastion, also has struggled historically with ethnic diversity; indeed, the 2010 census found...

What is the value of Black life in America? In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travelthe slave ship, tra...

'A delicious trip through the geography, history and culture of the region'  Sunday Telegraph Ever since the days of the Grand Tour, Tuscany has ca...

Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out. It usually involves the common tropes we see spla...

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic...

He was much like the Walter Cronkite of Philadelphia.Ed Rendell, former Philadelphia Mayor and Pennsylvania Governor, about Jim Gardner, the truste...

The dockyard at Portsmouth was founded by Henry VII, developing into a naval base that was essentially the nations most important military establis...

Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls wilderburbs have offered residents both the pleasures o...