Many historians now point to that bloody night on Pottawatomie Creek as the first shots of what would become the American ...

In spring 1864, Union General Banks led 30,000 troops up the Red River toward Shreveport, the Confederate capital of ...

Patience Boston was born December 26, 1711, on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod. Her Nauset parents, John Samson and Sarah Jethro, ...

The Civil War left thousands of families in the dark about their loved ones. No one knew who lived or died until Clara Barton ...

Yet by 1862, they stood as foes at Fort Donelson, where Grant asked for “unconditional surrender” but still showed his old ...

Congress passed the Refugee Relief Act in 1953, which let 2,000 Palestinian families start new lives in America. Men like ...

In 1898, a bat cloud led 16-year-old cowboy Jim White to find Carlsbad Caverns in the New Mexico desert. Five days later, he ...

The Canterbury Shakers built a world where orphans found home. Back in 1792, these celibate believers began taking in kids ...

The ancient aquaculture system at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park shows how Hawaiians mastered both land and sea ...

While Broadway banned gay themes in 1928, theater folks found a secret haven just off Long Island. Cherry Grove on Fire ...

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Colorado loves its tourists—we rely on you to fund ski towns and keep the I-70 traffic spicy. But if you want to blend in, learn how to pronounce “Frisco,” stop asking about sea level, and bring ...