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Shutterstock The Navajo Code Talkers’ Secret Training Philip Johnston brought a bold idea to the Marine Corps in February 1942. Growing up on the...
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Shutterstock The Navajo Code Talkers’ Secret Training Philip Johnston brought a bold idea to the Marine Corps in February 1942. Growing up on the...
Wikimedia Commons/Various/several The Jersey Devil Legend The Jersey Devil roams the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey. People describe it with a horse-like head,...
Wikimedia Commons/Deisenbe Fort Mose Fort Mose became the first free Black settlement in what is now the United States in 1738. Spanish officials named...
Shutterstock Wall Street’s Dutch Origins The Dutch built a wall in 1653 where Wall Street now runs. They called it “Het Cingel,” meaning “the...
Shutterstock The Havasupai of Northern Arizona The Havasupai have lived in and around the Grand Canyon for at least 800 years. Their name means...
Wikimedia Commons The 1865 Freedmen’s Town Settlement at Buffalo Bayou Freedmen’s Town began in 1865 after slaves in Texas learned they were free. About...
Wikimedia Commons/Thomas Carr The Star-Spangled Banner (National Anthem, 1931) Francis Scott Key never meant to write America’s national anthem. He was just a lawyer...
Shutterstock The Sequoyah Syllabary Creation Sequoyah spent twelve years working on what many thought was impossible. The Cherokee had no written language, so he...
Shutterstock Bodie, California W.S. Bodey found gold in the hills north of Mono Lake in summer 1859. He worked with three other prospectors who...
Wikimedia Commons/w_lemay Middleton Place In 1741, Henry Middleton set over 100 enslaved people to work digging butterfly lakes and building terraces for what would...