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 ...

The West has long captivated Americans’ imaginations with its iconic vistas and mythical lore. Mountains jutting toward the heavens. Windswept valleys and ochre-colored deserts. A land of rugged ...

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 ...

Discover how America’s first frontier farmers braved the wilderness during westward expansion. From British restrictions to the first log ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abilene ISD musical group Revolution Strings, Ballet Folklorico del Big Country and the Sahawe Dancers performed for visitors ...

A leading scholar on the American West, Dr. John Mack Faragher, and Kenn Thomas, an expert on the John F. Kennedy assassination, will be featured Sunday on the "Going Public" radio show. Faragher ...