rural America

Between the 1920s and 1940s, wealthy young women signed up to run errands and carry messages for the Frontier Nursing Service.

Its inhabitants are as much creatures of state power and industrial capitalism as their city-dwelling counterparts.

Did you know that there was a hidden utopia of formerly enslaved people located in the mountains of Appalachia?

At the same time that MLK was using TV to brand Southern sheriffs as obstacles to progress, a Southern sheriff was one of the medium's most beloved characters.

Consolidation aimed to bring cutting-edge reforms to rural schools. Instead, it hurt kids and communities.

Baseball's creation myth is bunk, and historians have shown how important cities were to the game's development. But it was still a rural passion.

For millennia, humans have followed specific patterns passed down by their forbears without always knowing why.

Rural Americans once led the fight to link extreme weather like Hurricane Harvey and human activity. What changed?

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

A whistle-stop train tour, and some plain speaking spur Harry Truman's come from behind win in 1948 over Thomas Dewey.

The hardscrabble origins and unique vision of novelist Willa Cather.

Even as the civil rights revolution brought significant gains to Black residents of cities, the story was very different in rural places.

Jefferson's vision of the family farm is a myth that won't die.

On the early years of America's chronicler of the Great Plains.

Seeking rural solitude, urban Southern Californians ventured into the Mojave Desert, armed with pickaxes and dreams but facing harsh landscapes and red tape.

This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region.

At every stop, he enthralled audiences with a device called a “stereopticon.”

The idea that non-white immigrants are, generally speaking, new to the Midwest could not be further from the truth.

Soon after he was elected, Abraham Lincoln received a rather bizarre letter.

How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.