(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...

As the history books will tell you, the mining industry has taken thousands of lives over the years. When the Industrial ...

Elon Musk referenced a Pennsylvania limestone mine where federal employee retirements are processed, but the mine's story is ...

More than a decade after Nevada lawmakers passed a bill to remove coal from NV Energy’s quiver, the state’s last ...

Bodie, California Nestled in the heart of California, Bodie once thrived as a bustling gold-mining town during the late 1800s ...

High Littleton’s history can be traced back to Saxon times, while Hallatrow’s origins are probably much older. The Domesday Survey of 1086 recorded each village occupying about 600 acres of mainly ...

Looking back at the past, cooking appliances were very, very rudimentary. The earliest type of oven was a ‘grate’, found in areas where the coal miners were busy mining coal that was available locally ...

Residents can explore around the remnants of an abandoned coal mine in OC’s backcountry with Irvine Ranch Conservancy.

Here are expanded descriptions for all 20 ghost towns in Colorado: ...

Over 100 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan embedded its roots in the Northeastern part of the United States. One of their targets ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become ... was part of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a 15-day series of lectures throughout Northeast ...

It was clear in the early 1800s that Schuylkill County’s coal deposits were going to become big business ... The talk, which drew more than 50 people, was part of Anthracite Mining Heritage Month, a ...