Shutterstock The Cherokee Trail of Tears In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their ...

Wikimedia Commons/Abernathy Family The 1965 Selma to Montgomery March About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME ...

Shutterstock Cane River National Heritage Area The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once ...

Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Georgetown Slavery Archive The Georgetown Jesuit Slave Sale of 1838 Maryland Jesuits built farms as early ...

Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Msact Seaside Sanatorium Connecticut built America’s first sunlight-based tuberculosis treatment center for ...

Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...

Wikimedia Commons/Fred Bauder The 1895 Yellowstone Bannock Settlement Destruction (Wyoming) On July 13, 1895, a posse of 27 ...

Shutterstock Action Park Eugene Mulvihill opened Action Park on July 4, 1978, in Vernon Township, New Jersey to make money ...

Shutterstock Wall Street’s Dutch Origins The Dutch built a wall in 1653 where Wall Street now runs. They called it “Het ...

Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same ...