Travel

Mexico’s portion of the Península de Yucatán is a thumb shaped land mass, comprised of three states, Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Roo, that is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico on the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east.

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Though Independence, Missouri was officially established on March 29, 1827 its settlement predates that by hundreds of years. The land, on the southern shore of the Missouri River, was the homeland of the Missouri, Osage and Kanza Indians when the first white man…

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With the premiere of Spielberg’s movie Lincoln, detailing the final months of his life, I have begun to wonder which places would he visit if he were to return. Which places, events and individuals did he hold so dear that he would want one more look to remind him of what happened there?

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Kansas City is renowned internationally as a city of jazz but it is that and much more. It has more fountains than any city in the world other than Rome, more boulevards than any city except Paris, some of the nation’s best restaurants and the friendliest people.

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A stroll through the 18th & Vine Historic District is a walk into a living, breathing, autobiography of a people, an era and a genre of music that is considered America’s musical contribution to the world. African Americans began moving into the area in the 1880s and twenty years later…

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Albany began as the Dutch West India Company’s northernmost Dutch settlement. In 1614, less than 10 years after Henry Hudson’s explorations, a small building was constructed on Castle Island to store trade goods and house approximately 12 men. Inside a moated stockade stood a…

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Up to $13,000 in bonus savings on a luxury cruise, $1,500 per couple savings on a river cruise in Europe, two-for-one pricing, free airfare, complimentary shore excursions, up to $500 in shipboard credits: these are just some of the exclusive offers…

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From the time enslavement was introduced into the New World those enslaved sought to free themselves from bondage by escaping and there were always those assisted them. Virginia passed the first law that mandated a penalty for offering shelter and…

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Mobile Bay, the Gulf of Mexico’s northernmost inlet, has always been an important link to the Atlantic Ocean and the trade and transportation routes of six Mexican states, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. 

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The earliest European settlers of what would become the United States were confronted with a vast land that contained 1,077,380,000 -acres of forested land, approximately 47 percent of the total land area. Three hundred years later nearly 15 percent of that land was no longer forested.

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