In 1854, a simple gift turned into a national scandal. Pope Pius IX had sent a marble block from Rome’s Temple of Concord for the half-built Washington Monument. The anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party ...
Charleston woke to cannon fire on September 13, 1862. Confederate General William Loring led 10,000 troops against Union Colonel Joseph Lightburn’s outmatched 5,000 men. These commanders shared an odd ...
Life in Hawaii looks like paradise from the outside—but once you live here, you realize locals have their own set of quirks. What seems perfectly normal to islanders often leaves visitors wide-eyed ...
In 1539, a Moroccan slave named Estevanico met his end at Hawikuh, a Zuni pueblo in what is now New Mexico. He had lived through the failed Narváez trek of 1527, then spent eight years crossing the ...
Ancient Hawaiians built a world on black lava rock that most folks would walk past. Around 900 AD, they settled Kaloko-Honokohau and turned harsh land into a home for hundreds. Their secret? Fish ...
Cane River Creole National Historical Park holds the story of America’s most unlikely business empire. Marie Thérèse Coincoin was born into slavery in 1742 at Natchitoches, but she refused to stay ...
The Lyon Farm historic farmhouse in Georgia’s Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area holds the roots of one of the state’s oldest African American communities. In the 1820s, former British soldier ...
Fort Hancock held nuclear missiles just miles from Manhattan, and most New Yorkers never knew. From 1954 to 1974, this Sandy Hook base housed Nike Site NY-56, part of a secret ring of missile sites ...
Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana stands today as one of America’s most recognizable antebellum sites, with its famous canopy of 28 oak trees leading to a Greek Revival mansion. But the plantation’s ...
In 1809, a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah saw white soldiers reading letters and got an idea that would save his people’s language forever. Born around 1775 and unable to read any language ...
During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bay St. Louis got hit with a 28-foot storm surge—the highest ever recorded in U.S. history. The water pushed 12 miles inland, beating the old record of 24 feet set by ...
Mississippi isn’t for the faint of heart—it’s for folks who can handle triple-digit heat, triple-layer casseroles, and triple aunties telling you what you should’ve done differently. Down here, people ...
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