How do you think differently about the Gold Rush after this exercise? Have students research, then create a timeline or a map depicting various gold rushes throughout the world and the impact they ...

Every year, more than 3,000 hikers attempt this famous Yukon Gold Rush trail (pictured above), which is still redolent with the suffering of the thousands of gold miners who forged it on their ...

An astounding amount of gold was pulled from the ground during the California gold rush. In 1852 the take for the year was $80 million ($1.9 billion in 2005 dollars). This map shows some of the ...