Stripping coal at Hazleton, Pa. By digging into facts about a massacre of immigrant coal miners more than a century ago in Lattimer, archaeologist Paul Shackel uncovered a perspective on immigration ...

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Anthropologist Paul Shackel has used Eckley Miners’ Village Museum since 2009 as a base while digging artifacts and writing two books on the history and impact of mining. He and his students set up ...

A building slated to be torn down as part of the Broad Street Corridor project is a historic structure related to the Lattimer Massacre that should remain standing, according to a historian. Dr. Paul ...

LATTIMER – The grove of trees obscured signs of civilization, but Michael Roller searched anyway. Soon he and fellow archaeologist Paul Shackel noticed depressions where foundations had settled from ...

HAZLETON – A University of Maryland anthropology professor interested in the Lattimer Massacre said he has found bullets fired from guns at the site of the incident 113 years ago. Where those bullets ...

In a remote pasture in western Illinois, researchers have been digging up buttons, porcelain and other artifacts from a former frontier village launched by a freed slave. Subscribe to read this story ...

From orange creeks to 100-foot culm banks, the harm that the coal industry did to the environment of Northeast Pennsylvania still is easy to see. Less obvious are lingering effects of the industry on ...

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Story of Self Chapter 1: Story of Self Part 2: Story of Us Chapter 2: What Does it Mean to Live in the Anthropocene? Chapter 3: ...