Duchess Quamino’s Revolutionary Rise God’s Little Acre in Newport, Rhode Island holds the grave of a woman who baked her way to freedom and shaped America’s greatest abolitionist preacher. Duchess ...

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The Wing Luke Museum in Seattle holds the story of America’s first truly integrated martial arts school. In 1960, a young ...

Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans holds the birthplace of American jazz music. For over a century, enslaved and free people ...

Chief Plenty Coups State Park holds the story of six Crow warriors who watched America’s most famous military disaster unfold ...

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park preserves the story of Daniel Boone’s most heartbreaking failure. In 1773, Boone led ...

Within months of Roosevelt’s flight, the first class of Tuskegee Airmen finished their training. Captain Benjamin O. Davis Jr ...

In May 1919, Spanish flu hit the remote village of Unalaska like a sledgehammer. Nearly all 360 residents got sick, including ...

On June 28, 2005, he stepped into enemy fire to save his team during Operation Red Wings. President Bush gave him the Medal ...

The Nez Perce National Historical Park preserves the site where gold fever destroyed a nation in 1863. When miners found gold ...

James Fenimore Cooper used this incident as inspiration for his classic novel “The Last of the Mohicans” published in 1826.

Enraged, Clay threw his medal into the Ohio River from the Second Street Bridge. Thirty-six years later, a trembling Ali lit ...