A grouping of dilapidated buildings at a rural crossroads in Conecuh County makes up the community of Brooklyn, Ala. The original wooden volunteer fire station, a general store, a Masonic Lodge ...

The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, ‘The Last American Road Trip,’ Sarah ...

Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Picture a map of the United States and what do you see ... it didn’t require continuous swaths of land for railroad tracks and telegraph cables to maintain ...

Palace as a club dates back to 1861. Inevitably ... You’ll find another station on the map called Woolwich Arsenal as part of the Docklands Light Railway. The team moved to north London ...

"Track-laying" on Railroads costs so much per mile. It requires rails, chains and spikes, and some labor. These could be replaced. But that the old "track" should be burnt bodily -- that gives us ...

Born at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire on February 15, 1861 ... that the study of maps smacked of strategic and tactical ways of thinking, out of place in an abode of scholars. In the spring of 1892 he ...

Public transportation was developing throughout Brooklyn, and the section benefited from its proximity to the Long Island Railroad (which began operations ... none of these streets existed anywhere ...

September 1861, Bennett enlisted in Company E of the ... His photographs and stereographs were used by railroad companies as a way to attract tourists from the South. Thousands of copies of ...

Ace any trivia night with these fun facts about America Fun facts about America that will surprise you Although the United States is only 250 years old, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about it.

Although the saga of American slavery, and the Underground Railroad (the network that ... the political passions that electrified the United States during and after the Civil War, he is virtually ...