But grandma’s old black iron kitchen range still had to keep a fire every day to do the cooking and baking and heat water, ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) The popular “ Yellowstone ” TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state’s history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during ...

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Donald J. Trump rode a promise to smash the American status quo to win the presidency for a second time on Wednesday, surviving a criminal conviction, indictments, an assassin’s bullet, accusations of ...

With the exception of the French Quarter, the streets, blocks and parcels of historic New Orleans fit within the framework of ...

Hollywood has created the expectation that gunfighters facing off at 20 paces were everyday events in the Old West. There ...

Augusta University is hosting a decades-old symposium led by a pair of nationally recognized historians. Its topic is most ...

A 134-year-old talking doll invented by Thomas Edison managed to spook social media users — who called it “horrifying” and ...

There’s an old story about two explorers on horseback riding into a ... The Valley of Death. Even in the 1800s, the heat is ...

The brutal and unforgiving American frontier created a different kind of man. These explorers, fur trappers, guides, and ...