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

Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the US Department of Labor’s headquarters in ...

The completion of the Union Pacific’s transcontinental railroad in 1869 created a voracious demand for coal, and the immense ...

Explore Wyoming’s forgotten ghost towns where dusty streets and empty saloons still whisper stories of the Old West.

We took our detectors to a forgotten mining town and hit the jackpot. Tokens, rings, and relics from another era, all hidden ...

Explore these abandoned Pennsylvania coal towns where history lingers. Silent streets, lost stories, and haunting industrial ...