Recently, the Akron Zips have been a mainstay in the NCAA Tournament, making appearances in 2024, 2025, and 2026 and four ...

American history has changed dramatically in a relatively short period of time. Since the nation’s founding, major political decisions, technological ...

I recently read “The Mohawk” by Codman Hislop,  who taught American Civilization at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Explore the past, present and future of the Erie Canal on its bicentennial anniversary. In 1825, the state of New York completed the Erie Canal. Today, the singular historic purpose of the canal has ...

More than 200 years after the Erie Canal opened to the public, its influence on the economic, cultural, and agricultural development of New York state — and ...

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, WTOP presents “250 Years of America,” a multipart series examining the innovations, breakthroughs and pivotal moments that have shaped the nation ...

Two hundred years ago, Pennsylvania lawmakers arrived at the Capitol in a state of panic. Pennsylvania’s economic standing was jeopardized by the opening of the Erie Canal across New York State in the ...

When the original Erie Canal was built between 1817 and 1825, it was both the longest artificial waterway in North America and its most significant public works project. Since no one had ever ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Sunday marks 200 years since one of the United States’ greatest accomplishments first opened: the Erie Canal. Just like the advent of the cotton gin, the telephone and the ...

Albany County is looking to bring back a restaurant and coffee shop to the former Saint Rose campus, which closed along with the college almost two years ago. Request for proposal deadlines for ...

Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the world’s busiest aviation crossroads should be — a dense web of aircraft linking Europe, Asia ...