Country singer Charley Pride wasn’t born in Montana, but he lived in Helena and Great Falls and worked for the Anaconda Company, which certainly gives him status as a Montanan. What brought him to ...

Arkansas is becoming one of the nation's logistics and distribution hubs. Along with its highways, airports and railroads, economic development officials across the state tout the ability to transport ...

How the Louisiana Purchase, War of 1812, canals, and steamboats transformed early American agriculture and opened fertile western lands to ...

Railroads are partying today like it is the 19th century. During that century railroad companies effectively ended the steamboat era and contributed greatly to the economic growth of the country.

Canals changed how people traveled and settled in Illinois. In many places it replaced the stage coach which was the first form of public transport between towns. The canal system in early American ...

"Bind the Republic together": canals, railroads, and the paradox of American progress -- "A wretched and miserable condition"; Irish ditchdiggers, the triumph of progress, and the contest of canal ...