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A new study by the US Geological Survey shows that a nationwide effort to control acid deposition by...

Consider the story of Mary Jemison. She was born in 1743 aboard a ship as her Scots-Irish family...

J.N. Cheney, an independent historian focusing on the labor movement, radical politics, and community action where he lives...

Mabel AllenAlice Mabel Allen (1886-1976) grew up in the village of Adams in Jefferson County. Mabel, as she was...

Today the state of Minnesota is engaged in the first General Strike in nearly 80 years. There have...

Not long after the guns of the Civil War fell silent, many former combatants took up the pen...

What follows is a report made by the directors of the Northern Inland Lock Navigation Company of the...

As Rochester’s Democrat and Chronicle effused, presciently, in 1874: Charlotte, the Rochester NY neighborhood situated “at the mouth...

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and if you lived through the 1960s, you’ll never forget that...

The National Park Service announced last week that our national parks will no longer provide free admission on...