Tennessee, never under Reconstructive military occupation, first began leasing prisoners in 1866 during Governor William G.

More than a century ago, there was a town where families of different races lived side by side. Neither housing nor schooling was segregated, and blacks and whites received the same wages for the same ...

In an early scene from the Oscar-winning “Harlan County U.S.A.,” a piece of technology is shown swallowing coal miners by the dozen. One after the other, we see helmeted workers merge their prone ...

On April 25, 1856, a coal mine in Harrison Township collapsed. Because they were working near the mine's entrance, 16 of the ...

Federal officials have rejected a mining company’s bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah ...

The North Dakota miner said the Bureau of Land Management hasn’t moved on an application submitted in 2019. A coal mining company is suing the Biden administration for refusing to review its plan to ...