Wikimedia Commons/Christophe cagé The First Shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter Confederate Lieutenant Henry S. Farley pulled the trigger of a large cannon at Fort Sumter at 4:30 a.m. on April 12, ...

Camp Nelson, Kentucky Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon became Kentucky’s largest recruitment center for Black soldiers. Over 10,000 ...

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Wikimedia Commons/John Steeple Davis Fort Ticonderoga’s Bloodless Capture Fort Ticonderoga guarded key water routes between ...

Shutterstock Gateway Arch National Park The tall steel arch in St. Louis marks America’s smallest national park. The 91-acre ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...

Shutterstock The African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, New York From the late 1600s to 1794, a 6.6-acre plot in Lower ...

Wikimedia Commons/Adam Cuerden Maj Della Raney Della Hayden Raney was born January 10, 1912, in Suffolk, Virginia to George ...

Wikimedia Commons/ National Archives and Records Administration Pearl Harbor Fueled Anti-Japanese Sentiment After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, fear and racism swept across America.