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Shutterstock The Supreme Court and Dred Scott v. John Sanford Dred Scott fought for freedom in court after living in free ...
Shutterstock Cane River National Heritage Area The Cane River flows through northwest Louisiana where Caddo Indians once ...
Wikimedia Commons/Abernathy Family The 1965 Selma to Montgomery March About 600 civil rights marchers left Brown Chapel AME ...
Wikimedia Commons/Bms4880 Pinson Mounds Complex Native Americans built the largest group of Middle Woodland period mounds in ...
Wikimedia Commons/Msact Seaside Sanatorium Connecticut built America’s first sunlight-based tuberculosis treatment center for ...
Shutterstock The Cherokee Trail of Tears In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their ...
Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...
Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same ...
Wikimedia Commons The 1794 Whiskey Rebellion Battle at Bower Hill Federal tax collector John Neville thought his fortified ...
Wikimedia Commons/Fred Bauder The 1895 Yellowstone Bannock Settlement Destruction (Wyoming) On July 13, 1895, a posse of 27 ...
Wikimedia Commons Crow People Removal from Yellowstone National Park The Crow Nation lived on lands in Montana and Wyoming ...
Shutterstock The Havasupai of Northern Arizona The Havasupai have lived in and around the Grand Canyon for at least 800 years ...