Upper Silesia, a region in southern Poland with long historic ties to the coal industry, is marked by the blood, sweat, and ...

In October 1925, the Pottsville Free Public Library was turned into an art gallery with an exhibit dedicated to life in the mines. Its centerpiece was an almost life-size painting of a miner, “The ...

The Everhart Museum hosted a Knox Mine Disaster film reception Friday in ... miners and how the disaster changed the future of coal mining. “It really changed the whole way that they do coal ...

Prohibition was in full force in February 1923 when Deputy Sheriff R.T. Edwards arrested three bootleggers in Sego, Utah, ...

A memorial event for the 183 victims of the 1942 underwater coal mine disaster in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture, was held on Saturday ahead of the 83rd anniversary of the tragedy. Organized by a civic ...