Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The depot put Boise on the map — both literally and figuratively ... expanding and opening up this whole area,” Wilson said. “The transcontinental railroad did a lot of huge things for this country.

Air freight did not blossom into a full-fledged industry until dedicated cargo airlines were established following the Second ...

With over 2,000 miles complete, this planned near-4,000-mile-long project invites cyclists and hikers to traverse America from the West to the East Coast.

MICHAEL BECKLEY is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the American ...

In 1848, San Francisco was barely a blip on the map. The area that would become the state of ... in the U.S. through San Francisco to find work in mines and on the transcontinental railroad. The gold ...

As part of the overarching ConnectCR project, the Alliant Energy LightLine bridge will provide an iconic destination in Cedar ...

The UW Symphonic Band and the Community Band will present “Settling the West,” a concert of music inspired by the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the oil fields of the 1900s, at 7:30 p ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored both at the NY municipal and state levels, thanks to a resolution that Assemblymember William ...