The Erie Canal opened the West-- but getting there could be a deadly gamble, as this 1841 tragedy demonstrated.

When the United States finally entered the First World War, a series of parades for international war commissions showcased one of the region’s most elegant automobiles.

Early in his career, future governor William H. Seward had to institute a regime of palliative measures in order to quell the axe-wielding settlers' riot against the Holland Land Company when their farms were threatened with imminent foreclosure.