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.

Somewhere in the hills of Ashland, Pennsylvania, there’s a yellow mine car pointed at the side of a mountain, and it’s ...

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.

Pennsylvania has experienced a long and varied relationship with coal. Bituminous (soft) coal was first mined in Pennsylvania at “Coal Hill” (Mount Washington), across the Monongahela River from the ...

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

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

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

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

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