The United States is a vast and beautiful country, spanning continents, time zones, and countless regions, biomes, and ecosystems. The US Explained dives into the geography, history, and culture of the country, one state at a time. This ongoing, 56-part series covers every state, territory, and federal district of the US, by order of admission. Join me on my journey across America!
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Come with me to the prairies and badlands that marked for countless settlers the edge of the Plains, the beginning of the rugged West that lay beyond, an essential center of agriculture, transportation, and finance. This is Nebraska - The US Explained
21 May 2026
Nevada - The US Explained
No state in the country has seen, or even come close to, the shockingly high population explosion Nevada experienced over the past half century. Las Vegas, a small roadside stop, has become the engine of its rise, a city unmatched in America in its extravagance and opulence. A place that could barely have been described as a city in 1960 is today the twentieth largest urban area in the country. Outside of Las Vegas, outside of Reno, Nevada looks much the same as it would have in 1960. Dry, barren, remote. A vast, empty desert, whose lonely roads wind through one of the most sparsely populated places in the country. This is The US Explained, Episode 37 - Nevada.
11 Mar 2026
West Virginia - The US Explained
West Virginia is an anomaly. Given its own statehood long after any of its neighbors, indeed even after most of the West Coast, the Mountain State born in the fires of the Civil War had long existed in isolation from the rest of Virginia, indeed from anywhere else around it. Here lies some of the most beautiful scenery in the eastern half of the country, home to America’s newest national park. Scenic small towns, rivers spanned by covered bridges, sit at the foot of tree-covered mountains. To truly know America, you must know the mountain backbone that built it. This is The US Explained, Episode 36 - West Virginia.
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