Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exposition became America's first World's Fair, introducing industrial ambition and much more.

After a second public hearing Tuesday, the Santa Cruz City Council will move forward with minor adjustments to the proposed ...

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics,” he wrote, “the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending ...

He was born a slave in King Williams County, Virginia around 1817, and was author of the 1847 unpublished memoir, “Fields’ Observations.” He was emancipated in 1850. Fields worked with the Freedmen’s ...

The Centennial Exposition drew millions to Fairmount Park as the 1876 World Fair gave visitors a look at U.S. industry and ...

How the Founders’ redefinition of what it meant to be a free citizen echoed down the decades.

Municipal ordinances that ban people from living on public property do not violate the Colorado Constitution's prohibition on ...

The Republican Government, which has been proclaimed in Spain, has informed the Papal Nuncio in Madrid, it is stated today, that in accordance with the declarations of principle published on the ...

This essay by Chase Woodruff appeared on Colorado Newsline on March 13, 2026. Temperatures in Denver hit 61 degrees on March 13, 1876, and that night the first rain of the year fell, though it soon ...

Pueblo’s grand celebration of the arrival of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway began promptly at dawn on March 7, 1876, with a 38-gun salute from an artillery piece loaned from Fort Lyon — “37 ...

Just after noon on July 1, 1976—an otherwise sleepy Thursday except that it was less than seventy-two hours until the Bicentennial—President Gerald Ford entered the U. S. Capitol. He then made his way ...

Church and the Centennial State: School funding, tax exemptions and ‘the God Idea’ sparked protracted debates among delegates in 1876 Despite the best efforts of suffragists in Colorado and around the ...