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Wikimedia Commons/Caroline Weldon Caroline Weldon, doomed savior of Sitting Bull Most people have never heard of Caroline ...
Wikimedia Commons/Charles Bird King How Cherokee Leader Sequoyah Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee ...
Wikimedia Commons The Barbary Wars America’s young navy faced its first real test when North African pirates started seizing ...
Wikimedia Commons The Osage Murders Oil made the Osage Nation incredibly wealthy in the early 1920s, but wealth brought death ...
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Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...
Wikimedia Commons/Digital Public Library of America online exhibition The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike Twenty thousand workers ...
Wikimedia Commons/Florida Memory St. Augustine, America’s First Permanent European Settlement Spain had bombed out six times ...
Wikimedia Commons/Dietmar Rabich The Alcatraz Indian Occupation When fire destroyed San Francisco’s American Indian Center in ...
Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 In 1877, America was deep in a four-year economic slump.
Wikimedia Commons/Hawaii State Archives Hawaii’s Bayonet Constitution of 1887 In 1887, armed white businessmen cornered ...
Shutterstock The Goliad Massacre Santa Anna had a simple rule for foreign fighters: shoot them all. When 400 Texan rebels ...