Even though West Virginia had remained in the Union, about half of the people in the state supported the South.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

I'm Faith Lapidus. One of the world's great natural wonders is in the state of New Mexico, in the American Southwest.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

David Johnson is a chemistry professor in the State University of New York's College of Environmental Science and Forestry.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

Less than ten years ago, the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center was formed in the state of Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Mary Harris was a schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee when she married an iron worker named George Jones.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

On Wednesday, Mister Obama marked his one hundredth day by speaking at a school in the state of Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

After she graduated, a friend suggested she try to establish the first public school in the state of New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

This week on our program, we tell you about a popular area for outdoor activities in the state of West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The Department of Health in the state of Minnesota says you should throw away anything in soft packaging.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Wisconsin's newly elected governor, Scott Walker, says limits are needed on labor unions to help cut a deficit in the state budget.

VOA: special.2011.02.25