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How Gettysburg families survived the Civil War’s bloodiest, most brutal battle
Shutterstock Gettysburg Civilians Caught Between Two Armies The Gettysburg National Military Park preserves one of America’s ...
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The 1863 Union raid that freed every slave from Louisiana’s most famous plantation
Shutterstock Oak Alley’s Enslaved People Break Free Oak Alley Plantation in Louisiana stands today as one of America’s most ...
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Escaped slaves built secret communities in this Virginia swamp for 200+ years
Shutterstock The Great Dismal Swamp’s Hidden Freedom Communities The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia ...
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The 17th-century Florida fortress that took 300 years of attacks and never fell once
Shutterstock Castillo de San Marcos Walls Defeated Cannons The massive stone walls of Castillo de San Marcos in St. Augustine ...
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The mountain man who died alone and got Nebraska’s most famous landmark named after him
Shutterstock Hiram Scott’s Death Created Oregon Trail Landmark Scotts Bluff National Monument in Nebraska holds the story of ...
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Jean Lafitte, the notorious pirate who saved New Orleans from British invasion in 1815
Shutterstock Jean Lafitte Traded Piracy for American Victory Step into Jean Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop Bar in New Orleans’ ...
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How a KKK church bombing in 1963 backfired and accelerated the end of Jim Crow laws
Shutterstock Birmingham Church Bombing’s Long Path to Justice The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama stands as ...
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The Hawaiian king who built a temple with his rival cousin’s body as the foundation sacrifice
Shutterstock Kamehameha’s Temple Unites the Hawaiian Islands On the Big Island of Hawaii sits Pu’ukohola Heiau National ...
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The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Irish workers who died building it
Shutterstock The Allegheny Portage Railroad Conquers the Mountains Hidden in the mountains of Pennsylvania sits the Allegheny ...
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The 1886 blizzard that dumped snow for 16 straight hours and ended America’s open-range era forever
Shutterstock The Rise and Fall of Conrad Kohr’s Cattle Empire The Grant-Kohrs Ranch Historic Site in Deer Lodge, Montana, ...
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This South Dakota missile wing completed the Cold War’s most dangerous weapons transition by 1963
Shutterstock Minuteman Missiles During the Cuban Crisis Era Deep beneath the South Dakota prairie sits Delta-09, a concrete ...
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This former slave became U.S. Marshal after breaking Washington D.C.’s whites-only property laws in 1877
Shutterstock Frederick Douglass From Slave to National Leader The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington D.