Historian and author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Va., will present an online program on “Civil War Railroads” 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table. The ...

HAMBURG, Pa. - An exhibit at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg transports guests back to the Civil War era, taking a look at the role of the region's railroads during and after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed Black ...

Eric Arnesen is emerging as one of the most original and independent-minded historians of American labor. The author of a fine book on dockworkers in New Orleans and a famous article discrediting the ...

"Beginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the Hill ...

Map list -- Introduction -- Opening the trade routes -- First railroads, 1700-1830 -- Origins of the streetcar -- Rail track developments -- Harnessing the power of steam, 1800-34 -- Coming of the ...

John Morris, who will present the March 15 program, is a descendant of an Ohio couple involved with the Underground Railroad.