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Bingham Canyon Mine Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Mining Company built the “largest industrial mining complex in the ...
Wikimedia Commons/William_Avery Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” ...
Wikimedia Commons/USGS The Love Canal Disaster William T. Love started digging a canal in 1894 near Niagara Falls to create ...
Wikimedia Commons/The Germantown Quakers The Germantown Protest, 1688 Four German Quakers wrote the first protest against ...
Wikimedia Commons/Karanacs The Fall of the Alamo Mexican forces attacked the Alamo at dawn on March 6, 1836, ending a 13-day ...
Wikimedia Commons/Jim Evans The Battle of San Jacinto The Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21, 1836, in what is now ...
Wikimedia Commons/EPA The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Spill United Nuclear Corporation ran the largest underground uranium mine in the United States at Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation pulled over ...
Shutterstock Gateway Arch National Park The tall steel arch in St. Louis marks America’s smallest national park. The 91-acre ...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown photographer, from Historic sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The ...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author Blind Tom’s White House Performance Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in ...
Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...
Shutterstock The African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, New York From the late 1600s to 1794, a 6.6-acre plot in Lower ...