Explore the remarkable life of "Stagecoach" Mary Fields, a fearless trailblazer who broke barriers of race and gender to become a legendary figure of the American West.

What was it like to live in the Wild West? By 1865, over 30,000 miles of train tracks crisscrossed the United States. With the Civil War over — and many people unshackled from slavery ...

Amidst the excitement, Frederick Jackson Turner offered his listeners at a American historians seminar, a new idea. His thesis "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" mournfully ...

Frederick Jackson Turner presented his thesis, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." He began by quoting from the Census of 1890: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a ...

His life connected three centuries, along with every conflict from the American Frontier Wars to World War II -- and he was able to tell people about all of it well into the 2000s. Matthews first ...