The incidence of so-called “black lung disease” has been roaring back due to mechanized coal extraction technology.

Paul Miles is following in the wake of narrowboating pioneer LTC Rolt, tracing a journey he made and wrote about more than 80 ...

On the final leg of his narrowboat odyssey, our writer reflects on our changing country – and finally finds a pint of mild ...

In the early 1930’s, Birmingham was a growing city with a population of about 260,000 people, giving the city a murder rate ...

The media eulogies of the former president, who died Sunday, are silent on his initiation of a frontal assault on the working ...

Jimmy Carter was arguably the most enigmatic president of America’s post-World War II era. He died on Sunday afternoon in ...

"Let's just say it's a modern shoe, not something you would find in a coal mine ... to the mine would give them better access to the main shaft that hadn't been used since the 1930s.

Backed by a West Virginia coal mining fortune, Henritze bought and developed ... “A toll keeper lived in the toll booth until the late 1930s,” Dye wrote.

He believed that a collective, interracial labor movement was essential to dismantling the economic and racial hierarchies ...

Among the first items on the New Mexico Senate’s agenda when the Legislature meets in the new year will be choosing whether ...

Photorealist art, once dismissed as simplistic, gets reconsidered in a sprawling MOCA exhibition in downtown L.A. that includes the premiere of provocative work centered on the Kennedy assassination.

A drive along The Old Ghan railway line reveals many remnants from the past that stand testament to the effort involved in ...