The Fairbanks House is the oldest wooden house still standing in North America. Built between 1637 and 1641, scientists ...

The Battle of Oriskany The American Revolution tore apart the mighty Iroquois confederacy on August 6, 1777, during a savage ambush near Fort Stanwix. British forces and Mohawk warriors trapped ...

The Ancient Hohokam Between 450 and 1450 CE, the Hohokam turned Arizona’s Sonoran Desert into a farming empire using just stone tools and wooden digging sticks. They carved 700 miles of canals through ...

New Religion Transforms Etowah Around 1250 CE, new people moved into Etowah and started building again. They brought different religious practices and ways of organizing their society. These newcomers ...

The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast. The ground moved in waves for nearly a ...

First Public Announcement of the Discovery J.P. Hedberg, Kensington’s mayor, first shared news about the stone months after Ohman found it. On January 1, 1899, Hedberg sent a copy of the strange ...

The 1925 Serum Run to Nome In January 1925, Dr. Curtis Welch found diphtheria spreading through Nome’s children. The town of 1,400 people had no fresh antitoxin because their supply had expired five ...

The Discovery of Oil in Pennsylvania Edwin Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the United States on August 27, 1859, in Titusville, Pennsylvania. His drill hit oil at 69.5 feet deep, ...

The Gaspee Affair of 1772 The Gaspee was supposed to stop smuggling in Rhode Island waters. Instead, it became the first British ship Americans burned in anger. On June 10, 1772, the revenue cutter ...

Old Stone House (Brooklyn, New York) The Battle of Long Island was the largest fight of the Revolution, and it all came down to one farmhouse. Maryland soldiers faced an impossible task: attack 2,000 ...

A Cook Who Smashed the Meatball Walter Anderson, born in 1880 to Swedish immigrants, ran food stands in Wichita since 1916. His first business was in a converted streetcar. He created his famous ...

The Idlewild Improvement Association Forms By the mid-1920s, the company had sold much of its land and turned the island in Idlewild Lake over to prominent Black owners. Dr. Williams joined with Louis ...