For Arlie Russell Hochschild, understanding why rural voters favor Trump required coming to grips with the role of emotion in ...

Still, the law reduced the environmental damage of coal mining, which was probably worse in Kentucky than anywhere else and included a severance tax that financed the reclamation of abandoned strip ...

The town of David was founded in 1940 by a coal company to serve its mines ... according to the history by author Mary A. Pineau. Eastern Kentucky, like much of Central Appalachia, was relatively ...

Is it significant? Yes. Is it historical? Yes. Is it neglected? Yes. So, these things should be saved, not paved over and forgotten like so many other significant events in African American history.” ...

This year, a hurricane washed away mountain towns in the U.S ... this hilltop in Martin County, Kentucky, a former ...

In this first installment of a two-part series, freelance writer Charlie Cy provides an overview and window into his world ...

and touted coal as a resource that would make the U.S. less reliant on oil from the Middle East. “I would rather burn a ton of Kentucky coal than to see our nation become dependent by buying ...

Still, the law reduced the environmental damage of coal mining, which was probably worse in Kentucky than anywhere else, and included a severance tax that financed the reclamation of abandoned strip ...

The Deep South faces a winter storm this week in places that usually do not experience snow or freezing rain. Here are three big concerns.