"Wish You Were Here" at the Grolier Club explores two centuries of NYC tourism using guidebooks, postcards, and other ...

Erik Brady looks back on the legacy of Paul Horgan, a chronicler of Southwest history who never lost his love for his ...

As the United States approached the year 1900 and the beginning of a new century, national optimism peaked, with newspaper ...

Today, hundreds of members of our community have either founded or worked for a startup and hundreds of millions of dollars are invested in Western New York ... of the 19th century, he recognized ...

Murder On Tuesday, December 2, 1902, the simmering feud between Arthur Pennell and Edwin Burdick boiled over in spectacular ...

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois. His ...

War Edwin Burdick had dragged his feet for more than four years over the matter of divorcing his wife. As Ed was, like all of ...

St. Patrick's Day is a week away, which makes now a fine time to read "Emerald Thread: The Irish in Buffalo." Timothy Bohen's ...

New York is a global center of dining and the culinary arts. Here are some of the countless menus for memorable culinary ...

It was the Gilded Age, a time of rapid population growth and transformation from an agricultural economy toward a sprawling ...

According to lore, these men were nicknamed Buffalo Soldiers by the Plains Indians who fought against them (in the late 19th century) because their dark, curly hair resembled buffalo fur ...