Huntington outlasted all his former Associates. He died in 1900, at the turn of the century his railroad project had helped to usher forward.

Interestingly, this might not be the case had it not been for the clever marketing of a certain turn-of-the-century railroad called the Northern Pacific Railway. In the early 20th century ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who ... runaway slaves seems to have begun towards the end of the 18th century. In 1786 George Washington complained about how one of his runaway ...