On February 13, 1960, 124 students began the Nashville sit-in campaign that lasted until May 10. Most participants were Black ...

Otis Clark (age 18) narrowly escaped while his stepfather was killed and his home burned down, witnessing the destruction of ...

At 9:00 PM, MacArthur sent troops to Anacostia Flats where 10,000 people lived in a makeshift camp. Many veterans had brought ...

The first test model flew in June 1942, with production models ready by October. The Hellcat went from drawing board to ...

On May 20, 1862, President Lincoln grabbed his pen and changed America forever. Congress tried to pass homestead bills three ...

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, ...