There are many myths about the American west. They're wrong yet are remarkably sticky in American cultural consciousness according to historian Megan Kate Nelson. Nelson will speak at Illinois State ...

Residents question plans to extend the life of a coal mine for 110 years when the power plant it supplies is set to close in ...

According to the National Council of Churches, the U.S. could lose approximately 100,000 churches in the coming years.

It all started, the story goes, with a single pistachio that American botanist William E. Whitehouse picked out of a pile of ...

Americans living in the territories reflect on their relationship with U.S. as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary.

A study tracks how the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade competition with Mexico led to earlier deaths for American factory workers.

A bill allowing professors and staff at Florida’s universities and colleges to train as “guardians” and carry guns on campus was approved by the Legislature.

Based on Denis Johnson's novella, it follows Robert Grainier, a logger in the Pacific Northwest during the age of westward expansion.Grainier helps build the railroads, a job that ends up shaping his ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, explores the making of a national pastime in an age of immigration and ...

As the U.S. Department of Transportation notes that for nearly two centuries, “railroads have been an indispensable part of America’s economy, society and way of life.” That indispensability wasn’t ...

A former deep-sea treasure hunter who made one of the greatest shipwreck discoveries in American history and spent the past decade in prison ...

Rumors circulated for days about the supreme leader's injuries after he was chosen by an Assembly of Experts to succeed his father.