Discover how American agriculture tripled its farms and population from 1860–1910, marking the most dramatic expansion in U.S. farming ...

The Frederick Douglass School for Black Children opened in 1870, named for abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Housed in a ...

We step back into 1910 and follow a world on the edge of modernity, restored in color and smooth 60-frame motion. This description moves through bustling New York streets, the layered skyline ...

Porfirio Díaz assumed the office of President of Mexico, on November 28, 1876, and for the next thirty-four years, he acted as the nation’s Strong Man, a tyrant, a despot, an autocrat. He won ...