Shutterstock Leavenworth, Kansas As the first city in Kansas, Leavenworth knows a thing or two about frontier life. The still-active Fort Leavenworth trained Buffalo ...

Shutterstock Cherry Blossom in Washington, DC Each spring, thousands of pink cherry blossoms bloom around the Tidal Basin. This beloved festival started in 1912 ...

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Carly Gregg, the Mississippi teen who shot her mother dead and wounded her stepfather, weeped as she was was found guilty Friday in the ...

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Wikimedia Commons/National Photo Company Collection Henry Rathbone’s descent into madness When John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln, Major Henry Rathbone lunged at the assassin and ...

Think you know Black American history? Look beyond the South.In the heart of Northern cities, hidden stories of struggle, success, and survival still echo ...

Shutterstock Delaware’s Historic Race to Ratify the Constitution First The Golden Fleece Tavern site in Dover holds the key to understanding how America’s smallest ...

Shutterstock Kilauea’s Deadly 1790 Eruption Preserved Ancient Footprints Deep in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park lies one of the most haunting reminders of nature’s deadly ...

Shutterstock Van Buren’s Unprecedented Third-Party Presidential Campaign from Lindenwald Martin Van Buren did what no ex-president had done before.In 1848, at age 65, he ...

Wikimedia Commons/Middleton, Strobridge & Co., lithographer; Mathews, Alfred Edward, 1831-1874, artist The 47-day Siege of Vicksburg Union General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army ...

Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from Confederate General Robert ...