Michael J. Gallagher was born in Scranton in 1898. He was born into an Irish family of coal miners and was destined to follow in their footsteps. From father to son, the skills and the grit were ...

Eckley Miners’ Village will mark the 35th anniversary of its signature event, Patchtown Days, on Saturday, June 14 and Sunday, June 15. The festival showcases the vibrant Coalcracker culture of ...

Our region’s resting grounds include grave markers that tell remarkable stories about people whose lives impacted our area.

O’Dwyer stood up for Irish Republicans, the early Zionists, Blacks in the segregated South, Blacks in the segregated North, ...

In the mid-19th century, Chinese immigrants built much of the developing American West. The community was often met with ...

A team led by Gianpiero Cavalleri at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin pieced together the new map using the genetics of 536 Irish individuals. The work, published in Scientific Reports ...

Approximately 187,000 miners, who represented about three-quarters of the country’s coal-mining workforce, went on strike to fight the closures Thousands of officers were drafted in to police ...

TRUMP’S TARIFF BOMBSHELL: Markets are surging. America’s trade partners are gleeful. Millions of U.S. businesses can’t ...

Asian shares have fallen and oil prices jumped as trade tensions and the Russian-Ukraine conflict ratcheted up geopolitical ...

Not since the 1970s has a Montgomery County father left his family in the morning to descend into a coal mine. But The Smith Sisters and Ricky Cox sang about the old dread for miners, their ...

Then came the coal-fired power plants, built throughout northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico to power progress in distant Western cities. The plants would play their own role in the ...

Benham Inn is a former schoolhouse that educated the children of coal miners (Annabel Grossman / The Independent) At Benham Schoolhouse Inn a sweet elderly lady greets me, warns me not to feed the ...