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 ...

Americans are still drawn to major cities — despite rising living costs and urban congestion. U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 migration trends report shows the popularity of migration pathways such as ...

“The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic Coast, it is the great West,” historian Frederick Jackson Turner said in his landmark 1891 speech. America pushed west, always ...

For nearly three decades, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company® has called West Des Moines home while helping ...

The number of U.S. citizens moving abroad doubled in the first quarter of 2025, according to a new report from CS Global Partners. Photo from Bing Hui Yau, UnSplash Au revoir, America. The number of ...