Ever thought a weekend could slow time? In Portsmouth, New Hampshire, it almost does. Picture historic streets wrapped in sea ...

Thinking about a summer trip to New York’s Finger Lakes but not sure where to begin? With so many lakes, towns, and scenic ...

Wikimedia Commons/Harris & Ewing Collection Jim Thorpe Jim Thorpe became America’s greatest athlete while trapped in a system ...

Flickr/owamux Po’Pay Po’Pay was born around 1630 in what’s now northern New Mexico. By 1680, he had become the Spanish Empire’s worst nightmare. This quiet medicine man united pueblos across 400 miles ...

Wikimedia Commons/Gillfoto The Alaska Territorial Guard Japan’s invasion of Alaska in 1942 caught America completely off guard. Dutch Harbor got bombed, then enemy forces took Attu and Kiska islands.

Wikimedia Commons The Piestewa Peak Lori Ann Piestewa made history when she was killed in a Humvee ambush in Iraq on March 23, 2003. The 23-year-old Hopi soldier was the first Native American woman to ...

Wikimedia Commons/Ricky Bonilla The 1992 LA Riots Four white cops beat Rodney King on camera in 1991. A Korean store owner ...

Wikimedia Commons The Incredible Story of Lozen, Apache Woman Warrior While Joan of Arc fought for France, an Apache woman named Lozen waged her own war across the American Southwest. Born around 1840 ...

Wikimedia Commons/United States Army The 442nd and the ‘Lost Battalion’ In October 1944, 275 Texas soldiers sat trapped in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Webb, Harry A. Susan La Flesche, America’s first Native American female doctor Susan La Flesche was eight ...

Wikimedia Commons/ Mamie Tape In 1884, eight-year-old Mamie Tape walked up to Spring Valley Primary School in San Francisco, ready for her first day. The principal turned her away because she was ...

Wikimedia Commons/TheCuriousGnome The Amistad Rebellion and Its Extraordinary Trial In 1839, 53 Africans broke their chains aboard a slave ship and fought back with cane knives. They killed their ...