Hanging on the wall behind them, black lettering spelled out “We the People.” In front of them sat and stood about a hundred ...

The pitch dark of the mines didn’t bother him, and in a nation where coal miners are a vanishing species—there were 863,000 ...

While the minewater would be treated, critics of the proposal say this would not eliminate risk, noting that wastewater can still carry pollutants.

While you might associate ghost towns with the remains of the wild west, the eastern U.S. also has many abandoned spots ...

Any history of industry in the Central Susquehanna Valley over the past two and a half centuries must start with coal, said Harold Aurand, professor of history and American studies, Penn State ...

An artificial mountain lies off a gravel road in Conemaugh Township, a rural community on the western edge of Indiana County.

If you were a young boy in Northeast Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century, you might very well have had a job at ...

When the cannons of the Revolutionary War cooled and the nation’s independence was secured, Pennsylvania’s work was far from ...

We live in the time of high-speed trains and soaring skyscrapers but then there are some corners of the United States that ...

The 400 miners, immigrants who went on strike after a state tax on foreign labor cost them 3 cents a day, started marching ...

The Anthracite Heritage Foundation and King’s College dedicated a monument Saturday honoring Carnegie Medal recipients for ...

Lanchester Wines in north-east England uses heat from a disused coalmine to maintain wine temperatures and with 23,000 flooded mines in the UK, there’s huge potential for more businesses and homes to ...