These kinds of foods became the bedrock of train food brought from home. While you can get steak or chicken in a butter sauce ...

The town hosts the State Fair of West Virginia each August, when the population swells from about 4,000 to “everybody and ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

And yet Connecticut—along with much of the rest of eastern North America—holds important clues about Earth’s history. This region, which geologists call the eastern North American margin ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring day 66 million years ago, or were they already on their way out, and the space rock ...

Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

The United States of America isn’t short on symbols that evoke ... nature—whether it’s herding the American bison on the North Dakota and Kansas state seals or scattering flowers like ...

Here’s a look at the life of Elton John, award-winning singer, composer and pianist. Personal Birth date: March 25, 1947 Birth place: Pinner, Middlesex, England Birth name: Reginald Kenneth Dwight ...