In June 1876, Sitting Bull saw victory in a dream. Soldiers would fall like grasshoppers into his camp. Three weeks later, at ...

The last Shaker sister at Canterbury Village died in 1992, ending centuries of tradition in New Hampshire. This religious ...

Before Hollywood, before the freeways, before any of the LA you know today, there was just a small pueblo by a river. El ...

Black Hawk escaped the massacre at Bad Axe. He fled north with a small group, hoping other tribes might shelter them. On August 27, 1832, he gave up. Black Hawk surrendered to U.S. authorities at Fort ...

Gold found in the Black Hills in 1874 during Custer’s expedition brought waves of white settlers onto Lakota land. This land had been promised to the Lakota forever by the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty.

Despite this small victory, Otermín faced strong resistance elsewhere. He retreated to El Paso in 1682, leaving New Mexico ...

Thick ice chunks clogged the Mississippi during winter 1838-1839, making ferry crossings impossible. Cherokee faced brutal ...

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Adolph Ochs, owner of The New York Times, started the first ball drop on December 31, 1907. The newspaper headquarters at One ...

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Boone’s group reached the Kentucky River in April 1775 despite the Shawnee attack. They picked a spot on the south bank in what is now Madison County. They began building a settlement that would ...