Most towns in the 1830s had one thing in common: white founders. But tucked away in western Illinois, a free Black man named ...

Grafton Ghost Town sits 3.5 miles from Highway 9 through Rockville, on the south bank of the Virgin River. Before Hollywood ...

Underground forces pushed the rock layers straight up from their first flat position. The San Andreas Fault, just east of ...

Soap Lake sits in central Washington at the foot of the Grand Coulee. This unusual 2-square-mile lake reaches 70 feet deep ...

Scattered across Washington’s prairies sit thousands of grass-covered bumps that have puzzled scientists for decades. These ...

Finnish soldiers on skis beat Russian forces during the 1939-1940 Winter War by moving quietly through forests where tanks ...

Captain William Van Schaick steered the burning boat toward North Brother Island, running it onto shore 25 feet from land.

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

Chicago newspapers picked up stories from Utah papers. The Utah paper ran the big headline “The New Gold Mines” and said the finds had “set the people wild.” Other papers kept writing about it, which ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.