More than 26,000 people have signed a petition supporting the protection of West Virginia’s Blair Mountain from a mountaintop-removal mining project. The Battle of Blair Mountain was fought between 10,000 coal miners and 3,000 law enforcement personnel over a span of five days in 1921. “The Battle of Blair Mountain helped start the middle class,” explained […]

Archaeologists have uncovered a 340-year-old Chinese coin in northwestern Canada. “The coin adds to the body of evidence that the Chinese market connected with Yukon First Nations through Russian and coastal Tlingit trade intermediaries during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and perhaps as early as the fifteenth century,” read a statement released by the […]