"America's River Roots" festival is taking place in Northern Kentucky this week. Tonight, we'll give you some history on a centuries-old travel method: the steamboat. Our Emily Sisk takes us to the ...

Due to popular demand, two local history books have been reprinted. Barbara Berry’s Bookshop has reprinted ”Trolleys of Jamestown and Chautauqua Lake – A New Look” and ”Chautauqua Lake Steamboats” in ...

Downtown Steamboat Springs will glow a little brighter on Friday as galleries across town open their doors for a December ...

The steamboat changed travel history, allowing masses of people to travel great distances in only days. It wasn’t long before Americans started racing these majestic machines, and America became ...

Uniquely is a Bellingham Herald series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in Northwest Washington so special. H. Leon Greene, a retired cardiologist ...

It’s early in the snowboard season, and that means many things. But for those venturing into the backcountry the most important this is this: the snowpack is unstable. The largest in-bounds avalanche ...

Six weeks after the USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, a writer for The Asheville Daily Citizen’s evening edition reported on Asheville’s plan to protect the city from Spanish troops as the United ...

Commercial steamboats did not meet with much success above the Massachusetts state line again. The Ariel Cooley was bought and sold a few times by various steamboat companies and continued to run ...

The quiet St. Louis riverfront in 1928, long after railroads had greatly reduced river commerce. In the background is the MacArthur Bridge, known then as the Municipal "Free" Bridge. The railroad ...

Hello, and welcome back to This Week in History! You may have noticed there was no issue of the column last week, and that was for a ton of reasons, but among them was one I’d like to briefly ...