The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...

Step inside the abandoned Spirit of the West park in Winnard’s Perch, Cornwall. Explore the Yellow Rose Hotel, County Jail, ...

Alot of mysteries lurk in this abandoned house, including the reasons for its abandonment, the family's past abuse, and the ...

The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted feel: Windows are boarded on Victorian-era turrets; paint flakes off the towering ...

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 ...

Explore the history of the abandoned Finland AFS radar station in Minnesota. It's a unique Cold War relic surrounded by the Superior National Forest. There’s an Abandoned Airbase Near This Tiny ...

Some places are just spooky. A long-burning underground coal fire has left Centralia a virtual ghost town. Located in the anthracite coal region in the Appalachian Mountains, the Columbia County town ...

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 ...