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

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

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

Wikimedia Commons/Lizarra1 Claudette Colvin Before Rosa Parks became the face of bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was just a ...

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

Shutterstock The Huimen Coast Miwok, stewards of Muir Woods For 10,000 years, the Huimen Coast Miwok called Muir Woods home.

Wikimedia Commons/Wabbuh The Republican Party’s anti-slavery roots One schoolhouse meeting in 1854 changed American history ...

Wikimedia Commons/Andrew Filer from Seattle Elsie Eiler and Monowi, Nebraska Most towns die slowly, then all at once. Monowi ...

Wikimedia Commons/South Bend news-times Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Chicago’s deadliest race riot started with a 17-year-old ...

Wikimedia Commons/National Park Service Maggie L. Walker When Maggie Walker opened St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903, she ...