As the United States expanded southward in the early 19th century, conflicts between settlers, slaveholders, and the ...

While much of Virginia was angry with Britain, John Connolly was busy using force against Pennsylvania’s land claims. When war came, he sided with the British and wound up in custody.

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

To drive east on Route 71 — through Alford and Egremont, onto Route 23, down into Great Barrington, up into the hills of Monterey, Sandisfield and Otis — is to ...

Journey through Oklahoma and Rhyolite Nevada to uncover Wild West relics filled with frontier history, rustic charm, and ...

Bodie is the quintessential ghost town, frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Once a booming gold mining town ...

Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s chamber opera “Proving Up” is set on the Nebraska frontier, but it takes aim at the hollow ...

What happens if you need to change or cancel your flight during the government shutdown? Here's how airlines are handling ...

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny questions about who gets to benefit from planet-heating oil.

Millions of Americans expecting to fly this month could have their plans grounded weeks ahead of the holiday travel season if ...

RAYLAND — Nestled in the quiet hills of Jefferson County, just beyond the rumble of a passing freight train, lies a piece of ...