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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Trump administration said it will open 13 million acres of federal lands for coal mining and provide $625 million to ...