WTOP’s Nick Iannelli explores the beginnings of modern energy in America and the 19th century, when wood, water and muscle powered the nation.

American history is often presented in broad strokes, leaving out many nuances and details that can paint a richer picture of the past. Many common beliefs about life in early America, while widely ...

In the late 1800s, Black cowboys brought their culinary knowledge from Africa to the American West—influencing everything ...

In early America, local governments, the courts and the clergy collected vital data like births, marriages and deaths. But these records weren’t the only tools people used to track their family ...

12,000-Year-Old Oregon Discovery Predating Egypt’s Great Pyramid Suggests Early Americans Were 'Far More Advanced' ...

Introduction: the experience of early American technology -- Technology in early America: a view from the 1990s -- The exhilaration of early American technology: an essay -- Lost, hidden, obstructed ...

The classic works from the early years of the country still provide the creative spark that inspires those who carry the literary torch these many years later.

This Black History Month, FOX5 digs deep into Nevada’s past to learn about some of the earliest African American pioneers in the Silver State.

ONE of the healthy things about modern art is that in the act of temporarily covering up some of the tedious stretches of the past it has opened up forgot ten landscapes. The resurrection of El Greco ...

The Revolutionary War was about many things — self-governance being at the core — but a major driver was access to land. The British restricted colonists’ migration westward across the Appalachian ...