We try to get to the bottom of this paradox and unravel the role that climate change is truly playing in our increasingly erratic weather and precipitation patterns. We also look at large climatological elements like atmospheric rivers...

Issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln almost three years into the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation played a crucial role in ending slavery across the United States and defining the principles that still govern the country today.

In the mid-19th century, only around 3% of those who traveled West on the Oregon Trail were Black. Among them was Letitia Carson, the only Black woman in Oregon to successfully receive land through the Homestead Act.

1862 - Lucy Higgs and her daughter escape slavery by fleeing to the Union lines outside of Bolivar, Tennessee. She volunteers for service, traveling with the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment as a nurse, cook and seamstress. For the...

Brush your history with a quick overview of the 1862 Homestead Act, one of Abraham Lincoln's crowning legislative achievements.

One of the most important battles of the Civil War wasn’t fought in the South – it was fought in the West. In March 1862, Union and Confederate forces came face-to-face – at New Mexico’s Glorieta Pass.

1862 - Lucy Higgs and her daughter escape slavery by fleeing to the Union lines outside of Bolivar, Tennessee. She volunteers for service, traveling with the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment as a nurse, cook and seamstress. For the...

1862 - Lucy Higgs and her daughter escape slavery by fleeing to the Union lines outside of Bolivar, Tennessee. She volunteers for service, traveling with the 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment as a nurse, cook and seamstress. For the...