From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Maps of the colony of Georgia showed multiple ... settlers from Virginia through the Cumberland Gap and over the Appalachian Mountains into what is now Kentucky, was also called a “buffalo ...

states struggling to recover This map shows rainfall from Helene and in the days preceding the storm that combined to create disastrous flooding. Cities along the Blue Ridge Mountains, including ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

The James Madison Program is honored to be welcoming to Princeton University the eminent literary scholar, historian, film-maker, and public intellectual Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. of Harvard ...

Campaign In 1789, only 10 of the 13 original colonies voted in the election ... White settlers began to move inland, west of the Appalachian Mountains, where they confronted 100,000 Native Americans.

NORFOLK, Va. — Cold air damming, or "The Wedge," is a term meteorologists use when a high-pressure system is “wedged” up against the Appalachian Mountains. Let’s break down what a wedge does.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining in which the tops of mountains are literally blasted off to access seams of coal. It takes place in the Appalachian Mountains, one of the oldest ...

North Carolina, which was at one time combined with South Carolina to form a single territory, was one of the original 13 colonies and became the 12th state in 1789. It sent the most troops to ...

Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial ...

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