On Dec. 4, 1850, editor Thomas J. Dryer cranked out the first issue on a hand press inside a crude log cabin at Front and ...

This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.

Sentenced to transportation after the 1848 rising he escaped Van Diemen's Land rebuilt his life in New York led Irish troops ...