Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier ...

In 1863, Smalls became captain of the Planter, the first Black man to command a United States vessel. He held this position ...

The first White Castle opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1921, selling five-cent hamburgers that changed American fast food ...

David Koresh claimed he was a prophet. The FBI said he was dangerous. After an almost two-month standoff, tear gas and fire turned the Branch Davidian compound into a death trap. Seventy-six souls ...

Wikimedia Commons/Colorized ver. CIVIS TURDETANI / U.S. Department of the Navy. Bureau of Aeronautics. Naval Aircraft Factory, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . The Hindenburg left Frankfurt on May 3, 1937 ...

In June 1876, Sitting Bull saw victory in a dream. Soldiers would fall like grasshoppers into his camp. Three weeks later, at ...

Gold found in the Black Hills in 1874 during Custer’s expedition brought waves of white settlers onto Lakota land. This land had been promised to the Lakota forever by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.

Before Hollywood, before the freeways, before any of the LA you know today, there was just a small pueblo by a river. El ...

The last Shaker sister at Canterbury Village died in 1992, ending centuries of tradition in New Hampshire. This religious ...

Black Hawk escaped the massacre at Bad Axe. He fled north with a small group, hoping other tribes might shelter them. On August 27, 1832, he gave up. Black Hawk surrendered to U.S. authorities at Fort ...

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