The ringing of the Wall Street bell, specifically at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), is a symbolic event that marks the ...

A historic cemetery for African Americans in Kingston, New York, is being reclaimed as ... as 1750 and remained a burial ground until the late 1800s, when the cemetery was covered over as the ...

In the 19th century, New York City was filled with more than 1 million immigrants living in poverty. Despite the vast number, they were easy to ignore because they lived in windowless tenements ...

In the spirit of surprising finds, here are 10 of the most fascinating and weirdest things people have found during home ...

In the late 1800s, many Americans toiled 12 hours ... American workers held the first Labor Day parade, marching from New York’s City Hall to a giant picnic at an uptown park on Sept.

When the ship is apprehended in American waters, a court case is conducted to determine who the slaves belong to with a young ...

Sunswick Creek in the Queens neighborhood of New York City fell prey to expanding concrete in the late 1800s. Appearing on maps in the 1870s, Sunswick Creek was soon completely covered over.

the exhibit highlights how women have also taken on physically arduous and perilous work such as using laundry clothes ringers in the late 1800s. Photograph: By Glenn Castellano, New-York ...

Set in the wine country of Finger Lakes, Belhurst Castle, which finished construction in the late 1800s, offers travelers a romantic retreat in New York state. There are three distinct lodging ...

The most intense panics on Wall Street have tended to occur during the late summer and early autumn months,’ an advisor and author says.

12—In the span of a little more than a decade in the late 1800s, New Mexico went from producing ... in comparison to the West Coast, Texas, New York and North Carolina, but it is average for ...