More than 1% of Americans headed west in one of the largest voluntary mass migrations in human history. It helped define who ...

Between 1840 and 1860, 300,000 to 400,000 Americans moved west on covered wagons for 2,100 miles across the Oregon and California trails. In those two decades they transformed our nation and endured ...

Writer Avaya Hall reflects on how childhood historical fiction novels helped her develop empathy and curiosity.

The site of Fort Kearny, the first U.S. Army Post on the Oregon Trail, and the future city of Kearney was surveyed in the ...