Bingham Canyon Mine Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Mining Company built the “largest industrial mining complex in the ...

Wikimedia Commons/The Germantown Quakers The Germantown Protest, 1688 Four German Quakers wrote the first protest against ...

Wikimedia Commons/Jim Evans The Battle of San Jacinto The Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21, 1836, in what is now ...

Wikimedia Commons/Karanacs The Fall of the Alamo Mexican forces attacked the Alamo at dawn on March 6, 1836, ending a 13-day ...

Wikimedia Commons/William_Avery Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” ...

Wikimedia Commons/USGS The Love Canal Disaster William T. Love started digging a canal in 1894 near Niagara Falls to create ...

Wikimedia Commons/EPA The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Spill United Nuclear Corporation ran the largest underground uranium mine in the United States at Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation pulled over ...

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 ...

Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author Blind Tom’s White House Performance Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in ...

What if summer wasn’t just about sun and sand? What if it was about stepping into something wild, quiet, and short-lived? In ...

Why do the quietest places leave the loudest mark? Along the Oregon Coast, peace still exists, hidden behind cliffs, wrapped in fog, and softened by the sea. These coves don’t shout for attention, ...