If you’re planning a road trip through Illinois, you won’t want to miss some of the state’s most unique and quirky ...

The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

A group of prominent businessmen with stakes in the Anaconda Mining Company hired Watkins to develop photographic evidence of ...

Wheat production grew as new railroads connected farms and markets. In between 1875 and 1890, bonanza farms, as they were called, were created especially in the Red River Valley. They were funded by ...

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