The Bluff Line Railroad, established in the 1890s, faced natural disasters and ceased operations in 1930.

In 1879, physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. In 1883, German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64. In 1885, the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” ...

In 1794, Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin. In 1812, the U.S. government authorized the issue of America's ...

Sweating it out in communal spaces for relaxation, physical or mental therapy and socializing has long been a staple of many cultures around the world, from Scandinavia’s saunas and Native American ...

LA MALBAIE, Canada (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio may be walking into unusually unfriendly territory this week ...

This is the most probable date when Black explorer Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable begins building the settlement, which would eventually become the city of Chicago, Ill. The Haitian-born (c 1745) du ...

Since he was born, Eli Tilley has had multiple health issues to endure, but continues to do his best every day.

Eli Whitney’s cotton gin was not as instrumental in pushing the United States to Civil War as many believe, a history ...

Bowling Green Plantation, Wilkinson County, Mississippi, 1795. Eli Whitney has planted the seed of the American cotton industry's industrial revolution by engineering the cotton gin! Which would ...

US President Donald Trump watched translated excerpts of an interview given by captivity survivor Eli Sharabi to the "Uvda" program, and invited him and other captivity survivors to the White ...