Jan. 5, 2006— -- Out of one of the toughest and most dangerous jobs in the world have come generations of powerful stories, almost all hinging on life and death and the suspense of waiting. "You ...

What drives Trump’s politics is nostalgia for the age of coal, when dirty fuel and no environmental regulations created his ...

Jun. 22—In West Virginia, where the Appalachian storytelling tradition still hangs in the hollows and along the ridgetops like a whisper of morning fog, it's not just the tale. It's the person who ...

This Saturday, Memorial Day Weekend, at the Good Old Days Museum in Soddy Daisy, the emphasis is on local coal mining. The museum is open from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. This is what made this entire area into ...

Learn how coal played a vital role in shaping the Utah we know today. The coal mining industry has been the backbone of rural parts of Utah for over a century. From extraction to refining, Utahns who ...

Miners, their wives, child laborers and patch town store operators all had a part in the history of coal in the Derry area. “There were so many mines in this area,” said Donna Showalter, a Derry Area ...

Sam Bennett is a fourth-generation coal miner who was instrumental in erection of the coal miner memorial on the Coshocton Court Square. Bennett recently gave a talk on coal mining history at the ...

During the 19 months of the United States’ involvement in World War I, the federal government froze industrial workers’ wages to finance its military effort. After the war ended on Nov. 11, 1918, the ...

The team revive a working model of a Welsh coal mine, original plans for a British engineering classic and a Victorian ...