Shutterstock Hampton Estate Built Through Enslaved Labor Empire Hampton National Historic Site in Maryland preserves the ...

Shutterstock Buffalo Soldiers Guard Texas Frontier at Davis Fort Davis National Historic Site in West Texas preserves one of the most important frontier military posts of the late 1800s.You can walk ...

Shutterstock The Rise and Fall of Conrad Kohr’s Cattle Empire The Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Montana, ...

Wikimedia Commons/C. Kendrick Shays’ Rebellion When farmers can’t pay their bills, they get angry. When the government takes ...

Wikimedia Commons/Internet Archive Book Images The El Paso Salt War In 1877, a Missouri lawyer named Charles Howard thought he could own salt lakes that locals had used for free for centuries. Bad ...

Cilly, lithograph by Landais? When Russia very nearly colonised California, Fort Ross Russia once owned a chunk of Northern ...

Wikimedia Commons/Robfergusonjr How Chief John Ross Tried to Prevent the Trail of Tears In 1828, a half-Scottish, ...

Wikimedia Commons/Benjamin F. Powelson The Oatman Massacre of 1851 In 1851, the Oatman family made a deadly choice. They ...

Wikimedia Commons/Atlantic Records Aretha Franklin, the first woman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Aretha Franklin didn’t ...

Wikimedia Commons/JThom4295 The Wilmington coup of 1898 Wilmington once had a thriving Black community and mixed-race ...

Wikimedia Commons/Digital Public Library of America The March on Washington, 1963 In less than three months, six civil rights ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ixfd64 Rosewood Massacre, Florida In 1923, a white woman’s lie about assault sparked one of Florida’s ...