Once early settlers navigated the rough Appalachian Mountains, they found vast stretches of undeveloped land in what is now central and western Tennessee. The early settlers often received land grants ...

ROAN MOUNTAIN — The 66th Spring Naturalist Rally of the Friends of Roan Mountain will take place from Friday, April 25 to Sunday, April 27 at Roan Mountain State Park. To register for the event ...

HAZARD, Ky. (WYMT) - The mission of CASA of the Appalachian Mountains is to promote and advocate for children who have experienced dependency, neglect, and abuse. They provide trained community ...

American expansionism, cloaked in the rhetoric of manifest destiny, appeared inexorable. In the United Province of Canada, this provoked more than mere concern: militia bills were drafted with ...

The formation of the Appalachian Mountains was the potential cause of this cooling. When the supercontinent Gondwanaland collided with what is now North America, the ancient lapetus Ocean closed ...

the average relative humidity in March 2025 in the area is the lowest observed across the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Poor moisture recovery overnight and afternoon sunshine is contributing to ...

Per the NCFS and the Southern Appalachian Fuel and Fire Behavior Advisory, March 2025 has seen the lowest average relative humidity in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. This, in turn ...

It was barren land, right? It was ready for the taking. And many listeners might be familiar with the idea of manifest destiny, which was something that Jefferson oversaw with the Louisiana ...

Recently I read Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States,” 10th edition. This eyeopener is hopefully also a mind opener. Dunbar-Ortiz is an American ...

But Eliza Townsend, Maine conservation director with the Appalachian Mountain Club, said the bill would upend a carefully crafted law covering metallic mining. "The current law wisely requires ...

James K. Polk and Manifest Destiny President James K. Polk believed in Manifest Destiny, an ideology that embraced the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire ...