If you’re looking for the perfect summer getaway, a road trip through New York’s Finger Lakes region should be at the top of ...

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

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

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

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

Shutterstock The Revolutionary Journey of Lowell’s Mill Workers The Lowell National Historical Park in Massachusetts ...

Shutterstock The 32-Hour Nightmare Inside the Capsized USS Oklahoma The Pearl Harbor National Memorial holds one of the most ...

Wikimedia Commons/Sgt. Brennan The Bloodless Surrender at Cumberland Gap Cumberland Gap National Historical Park sits where ...

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

Shutterstock Single Women Homesteaders Who Proved the West Wasn’t Just for Men The Homestead National Historical Park in ...