We located a lost Indian Wars era Fort near El Paso in the Desert of West Texas using metal detectors. This site was known as Fort Stockton and was garrisoned by Buffalo Soldiers protecting stage ...

The Gulf of Mexico has always been more than just a body of water for those of us living along its shores. It's a lifeline ...

Born Feb. 14, 1812, Columbus has gone from a simple settlement to Ohio’s largest city in its 213 years. Franklinton, named for Benjamin Franklin, was the first ...

Anderson County Council approved a memorandum agreement between Pelzer Heritage Commission and County on February 4.

Have you noticed people debating about the logic and logistics of renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America? These ...

Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump outlined in one of his many executive orders a mission to celebrate ...

Territorial expansion allowed the federal government to directly rule its many new federal citizens without any state ...

When some of the most valuable datasets in human history briefly vanished from U.S. government websites, it felt like ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...