We've been examining the nation's more than 180,000 historical markers. Many of them are comically wrong, others brazenly offensive. Today, we're going to turn our attention to markers that tell a one ...

American exceptionalism’s greatest metaphor — the American frontier — is dead, and in its place is Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, said Prof. Greg Grandin, history, New York University, in a ...

Esteban, York and James Beckwourth charted the American frontier between the 16th and 19th centuries History of Now Amanda Bellows - Author, The Explorers: A New History of America in Ten Expeditions ...

I just finished the book “The Never-Ending Lives of Liver-Eating Johnson.” In the annals of American frontier history, few figures loom as large or as mysteriously as this mountain man Jeremiah ...

Hidden beneath the legend of the Wild West lies a story few historians dare to tell - the forgotten connection between cowboys and magic mushrooms. As settlers, loggers, and ranchers spread westward, ...

American Primeval takes a detailed look at life on the American frontier in Utah during 1857. It follows an ensemble cast of characters from various backgrounds, including Mormons, Native Americans, ...