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Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from Confederate General Robert...
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Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from Confederate General Robert...
Shutterstock The 1826 Founding of Seneca Village In 1825, a shoeshiner named Andrew Williams paid $125 for three lots in upper Manhattan. That same...
Wikimedia Commons The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village The Mitchell villagers were among the first farming communities on the Northern Plains. They belonged to the...
Wikimedia Commons/Pierce, C.C. , 1861-1946 The Yosemite Indian Village For nearly 4,000 years, Native Americans lived in Yosemite Valley before anyone tried to remove...
What if a quiet corner of the past still lived and breathed today? It’s not in a museum, and it’s not where the crowds...
Flickr/rcbrazier – Brazier Creative Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village, Sedona Most people visit Sedona for the red rocks, but tucked between the cliffs is...
Shutterstock The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire On March 25, 1911, a small fire erupted on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich...
Flickr/snowpeak Makah Cultural Center, Washington A winter storm in 1970 ripped apart a muddy bank near Cape Alava, spilling 500-year-old wooden bowls and baskets...
Flickr/Gary Lee Todd, Ph.D. Lincoln’s New Salem (Illinois) Young Abe Lincoln split rails, clerked stores, and slept in taverns in this Illinois frontier town...
Flickr/CT State Library Great Swamp Fight, Rhode Island The Narragansett thought their island fort was safe. Thick swamp, winter cold, natural barriers everywhere. Then...