Taverns and saloons were an integral part of Irish and German immigrants’ lives and social connections in the 19th century. Social Turners, a German American gymnastics club, founded its Chicago ...

She was born in Ireland, probably in 1860, the child of impoverished ... For reasons Daisy never understood, "the Line," as the transcontinental railroad was called, attracted hordes of wandering ...

“If one argues that history is sort of a prism—that you look at the past in order to understand the present and the future—go no further than the transcontinental railroad,” says ...