Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...
Active drilling rigs in New Mexico. More than Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah combined. Most are located in Eddy County, home of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. Carlsbad Caverns is home to some of the ...
With Booker T. Washington’s help, Julius Rosenwald built 5,000 schools for Black students across 15 Southern states. Why do so few people know his name? Mostly, what Newell Quinton knew about his ...
Famous for its windswept beaches and spectacular views, Cape Cod National Seashore offers a quintessentially New England experience, from Nauset Lighthouse to the seaside cottages that nestle among ...
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Painter Chiura Obata combined Eastern and Western techniques to capture Yosemite in a new light. June 1927. Painters Chiura Obata and Worth Ryder stuff a Model T Ford with 14 boxes of food, fishing ...
What happens when erosion, rising seas, a national park and a beach community collide? Shortly after sunrise in mid-January, I parked my car behind a few pickup trucks on South Shore Drive in the ...
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