Jefferson’s government organized several western expeditions. Some carried luxurious supplies of food, some enjoyed local hospitality, and some nearly starved to death.

In its heyday, lace was beautiful, expensive, and handmade. Naturally, lace smuggling became the stuff of legend.

Stephen Pearl Andrews, a lawyer, Houston socialite, and abolitionist, concocted a plan to free Texas' slaves—with a hint of treason.

The 1874 locust swarm was estimated to be twice the square mileage of the state of Colorado. Why don't locusts swarm anymore?

In the early nineteenth-century, Mexico had a problem with American immigrants.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. It took over two years for the news to reach some enslaved people.

The 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.

In spring 1920, three men disembarked from a train in a high desert town. They had come on behalf of their friend Anson Mills, who had asked them to find his brother's grave.

How claims records and other documents serve as historical sources.

For the past two months, I have been on a researching road trip through the West and Southwest—Colorado, ...