Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

Editor's Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. John Deere failed as a blacksmith in ...

George Catlin was an American artist known for his paintings of Native American culture during the early 19th century. Catlin’s primary aim was to document the tribes and landscapes of the frontier ...

Excavations at the untouched site of a U.S. Army fort are providing a rare look at the path along which thousands of Cherokee were forcibly moved to Oklahoma Long time we travel on way to new land.

Dingaan the Vulture was one of Darkest Africa’s crudest black despots.* In 1838 a column of 600 Boers in white covered wagons was trekking northward from the Cape colony into Natal; the bearded ...

She lived on the Farne Islands, off the Northumberland coast. Grace and her father rowed across stormy seas to rescue sailors from a shipwreck on 7th September 1838. The ship, a paddle steamer called ...

Early in 1839 the Sisters went to Parramatta, possibly walking most of the way as there were few roads and vehicles were rare at that time. They were the first religious sisters in Australia and soon ...

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