Excerpts from a story by a New York Herald reporter’s 1865 visit to the Burning Springs oil field continues. The story ...

A grant from the State Historic Records Advisory Board enabled the digitization of two Civil War-era diaries now available for online research on CARLI Digital Collections.

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This ...

Virginia City, Nevada isn’t just preserved—it’s alive, breathing stories through weathered wooden storefronts and whispering secrets down streets that have witnessed everything from silver-fueled ...

Nearly forty years ago National Parks Service historian Chris Calkins wrote a two-volume work on the Battle of Appomattox and its aftermath. In 2023 Savas Beatie issued a revised edition of the first ...

We’ve just discovered a new mountain region to love in the Southeast USA; Shenandoah Valley in Virginia. Home of ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

The groups and organizations from across the state awarded the first $17 million in funding from the state’s opioid settlement funds were recognized in an event hosted by the West Virginia First ...

what brings Moscow and Beijing together and drives them apart and if the world is on the verge of the Cold War 2.0. (33 min., 30 sec.) ...

‘I want to live’: West Virginia miners say the stakes for them are life-and-death as Trump hollows out safety support. How POTUS’s pickaxe is hitting colliers where it hurts ...