Shutterstock The Closest the Confederacy Came to the Capitol The Confederacy’s last real shot at winning came in summer 1864 ...

Shutterstock From Grand Deportation Survivors to Instant Americans In 1785, homeless Acadians built a settlement in no man’s ...

Shutterstock The Pig War Standoff of 1859 In 1859, an American farmer shot a British pig on San Juan Island. That single ...

Year Campaign to Tame the Indian Territory When President Grant needed someone to clean up the most dangerous place in ...

Shutterstock The Great Sioux Treaty Councils of 1851 and 1868 In 1851, over 10,000 Plains Indians gathered at Horse Creek for ...

Shutterstock From Revolt to Reconquest Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico preserves over 24,000 ancient rock carvings ...

Shutterstock The Great Abandonment and Mass Grave at Salinas Pueblo Las Humanas was home to 3,000 people when Spanish ...

Shutterstock The Kentucky Volunteers’ Massacre at River Raisin Kentucky sent more men to die in the War of 1812 than any ...

Shutterstock The United States Colored Troops at Petersburg Petersburg National Battlefield in Virginia holds a powerful ...

Shutterstock The Fort Caroline Massacre In 1564, French Huguenots fleeing Catholic attacks built Fort Caroline on Florida’s ...

Shutterstock How Mormon Settlement at Pipe Spring Displaced the Kaibab Paiute For over a thousand years, the Kaibab Paiute ...

Shutterstock The Ancient Sinagua People of Verde Valley The Sinagua built an empire in Arizona’s Verde Valley that lasted 300 ...