Tag: Buffalo History Museum

In this episode, we revisit late December 1813, when British forces crossed the Niagara River and set the village of Buffalo ablaze. Through the eyes...

On December 8, 1980, as U2 played to a sparse crowd outside Buffalo, the world was upended by the murder of John Lennon, transforming an...

Edward Caleb Randall was a highly-respected lawyer from Buffalo. In 1892, his life would change forever. That's when he met Mrs. Emily S. French, a...

The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel that shaped our city, state, and nation. Digging the man-made waterway not only required innovation, but also the...

A poem by Andrew J. Smitherman (explicit language) After fleeing from Tulsa in 1921, Andrew Smitherman made his way to Boston before later settling in...

In late May of 1921, racial tensions erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma's Greenwood District, in what would become known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Among the...

Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and the first black woman to run for President, grew up in Brooklyn and represented her...

In September 1950, Swedish opera star Jenny Lind began an 18-month tour of American cities, promoted by P.T. Barnum. The tour brought her to Buffalo...

In the 1860s, Buffalo Bishop John Timon commissioned a 43-bell carillon for the city's St. Joseph's Cathedral. The bells, however, would run into a series...

October 26, 1825 marked the ceremonial opening of the Erie Canal, a waterway that would shape the future of the nation. To celebrate, Governor DeWitt...