Wikimedia Commons The 1770 Boston Massacre On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Boston colonists near the ...

Wikimedia Commons/Smithsonian Institution Photographed by Watson Davis The 1925 Scopes “Monkey Trial” The Scopes trial began ...

Flickr/CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange The July 6, 1944 Hartford Circus Fire Thousands of families packed the circus tent on ...

Wikimedia Commons The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher Mary Ludwig Hays was 23 years old when she joined the Continental ...

Shutterstock The Bay of Pigs Invasion On April 17, 1961, about 1,400 Cuban exiles trained by the CIA tried to overthrow Fidel ...

The RMS Carpathia was a passenger ship from the Cunard Line fleet. Captain Arthur Rostron led this 558-foot vessel carrying ...

Three Mile Island Accident in Pennsylvania Three Mile Island sits on the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. On ...

Wikimedia Commons/Jessie Tarbox Beals The 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair Human Zoo The Philippine Exposition was the largest ...

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling ...

Shutterstock Missouri’s secret summer circuit Missouri sits right in America’s heartland, but this state packs more variety ...

What real New Yorkers eat Forget the dollar pizza slices and hot dogs from corner carts. Real New Yorkers have a whole other ...