Builders of the first transcontinental telegraph line and leading citizens of early Omaha, their wealth benefited civic institutions including Creighton University. But the unabridged story ...

One hundred years ago, silent movies gave way to “talkies,” and women donning short, tousled bobs flocked to take in popular films like Ben-Hur and The Phantom of the ...

Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and ... The world was put on notice: the transcontinental railroad was completed and America was moving to the forefront of the world's stage.