BY THE WAY, IF YOU WERE WONDERING, BACK IN THE LATE 1800S, MARION MILLER MADE HISTORY WHEN SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN IN THE U.S. TO EARN HER STEAMBOAT MASTER’S LICENSE, AND SHE WAS FROM THE ...

As the weather gets warmer, it's almost time to return outdoors to some of your favorite summer attractions, including beaches, festivals and theme parks.

Merrimack Valley Transit, or MeVa, says it plans to launch its first-ever zero emission ferries next year — a green plan being eyed by other local and national transit agencies.

Alton Box Board Co. female employees, including Mary Fox, celebrated with a 1954 dinner at Alton’s Stratford Hotel.

On May 15, 1970, less than two weeks after the shooting at Kent State University, two Black students at Jackson State College ...

Casualties arrived on steamboats to be treated in hospitals or buried in what became the veteran’s cemetery,” Brandenberger said. Keokuk’s history is framed by two great rivers and rapids.

While millions of Arkansans have grown up within miles of the Mississippi River, it doesn’t exactly make the list for popular ...

The legendary church is a historic landmark where the enslaved first went to worship in the mid-1800s and continues ... activism and preserving the history of the church and historic figures ...

Louisiana’s history is layered with colonization, rebellion, resilience, and culture. From the founding of Natchitoches in ...

History will forever remember the city’s greatest ... an open space where the enslaved and free people of colour gathered throughout the 1800s for meetings, open markets, and the African dance ...

Spotify For a landlocked state, Minnesota has an outsized share of lovely lighthouses — from stunning Split Rock overlooking ...

The steamboat Sultana exploded on April 27, 1865 on the Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,800 people. What happened on the Potomac “just got lost to history because it got overrun by ...