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As part of American Indian Heritage Month, the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library hosted a lecture with Native American Community Services Executive Director Michael Martin.
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The declaration allows the government to take special measures to contain the spread of the virus. Those include new restrictions on travel from China.
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It was nothing less than the forced displacement of almost 700 people, and more than 50 years later the memory of it still haunts those families and their…
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"Fifteen years on the Erie Canal," the song goes. Try 100. The New York State Canal System officially turned 100 years old Thursday with a ceremony that…
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We take it for granted, but here on the Niagara Frontier we are surrounded by vast industrial projects of almost unimaginable scale — monstrous factories,…
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The chronicle of baseball’s color line usually focuses on the triumphant story of its breaking by Jackie Robinson in the 1940s. Rarely told is the bitter…
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Father Nelson Baker — the “padre of the poor,” the man who built the Our Lady of Victory complex in Lackawanna into an astonishing city of charity that…
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Even today, more than 60 years after it took place, the Cleveland Hill School fire still haunts the memories of those who lived through it, and all the…
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As a little boy growing up in Sokol?e, a small village in postwar Czechoslovakia, Stanislav Gvoth didn’t know anything about hockey. He didn’t even know…
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The World War II homefront was a special time and place for American women. With some 16 million men off to fight in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific,…
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For black people at the turn of the 20th century, America was a harrowing place to be. It was a land of legally sanctioned discrimination, widespread…
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We’re not entirely sure how the Buffalo chicken wing was invented, but there are some good tales, and they tend to revolve around what happened one night…