The site of Storer College, established after the Civil War to educate formerly enslaved people, represents an important chapter in the struggle for equality and opportunity. Though the college closed ...

Tucked away in the gentle folds of Taylor County’s hills, Grafton, West Virginia stands as a testament to what happens when a place refuses to surrender its soul to the relentless march of modernity.

In the heart of Appalachia is a West Virginia town where the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud took place, and it's a great place ...

Hollywood gave us a version of the Old West filled with shootouts and saloons, yet the real frontier was far more complex and ...

Want to reside in a lake town on the West Coast? Be prepared to shell out more money for four seasons’ worth of recreational activities. There are 10 locales worth checking out where the average ...

Texas is famous for leading the nation in cattle, cotton and oil, but the Lone Star State can claim another distinction more appropriate for Halloween this week: Texas not only hosts more bat species ...

Editor’s note: Caprock Chronicles is edited by Jack Becker, Librarian Emeritus, Texas Tech University Libraries. He can be reached at [email protected]. Today’s article about Lubbock’s forgotten ...

The ghost writer who helped Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accuser, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, pen her memoir claimed she knows everyone named in the so-called Epstein files. “Yes, I know who the ...

In 1897, a young bride named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead at the bottom of her stairs in rural West Virginia. Her husband claimed it was an accident—but weeks later, her mother swore that Zona’s ...

SPECTRAL STORIES: John Badger talks to a Haunts of Hendo tour group outside the Historic Courthouse in Hendersonville. "The historicity of it is very important to me — making it entertaining and ...

Garnet is one of Montana’s best-preserved ghost towns, where original buildings and guided tours bring 19th-century mining history to life for travelers. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight ...