As British troops marched uphill, Colonel Prescott gave his most famous order. He told his men not to fire until they could ...

Canyon de Chelly had sheltered the Navajo for generations until Kit Carson arrived in 1864. His troops burned crops, killed ...

Jim White was hauling water for cattle when he saw what looked like smoke billowing from a crack in the desert. Turns out it ...

Eugene Bull Connor, Birmingham’s Police Commissioner, planned these attacks with local Klan groups. He promised them 15 ...

Narragansett fighters attacked Rhode Island settlements that had stayed out of the early fighting. They burned 100 houses in ...

Nobody knows who fired first, but the gunfight lasted over two hours. Four ATF agents were killed and 20 wounded, while six Branch Davidians died. Koresh himself was shot and badly hurt. After the ...

Chief Petty Officer Frederick “Bull” Tobin led the Navy landing crew. When the airship caught fire, many people ran away from danger, but Tobin shouted, “Navy men, Stand fast!” His words made sailors ...

Captain Henry Wirz thought he was just running another Confederate prison camp. Instead, he became the only Civil War soldier ...

In 1863, Smalls became captain of the Planter, the first Black man to command a United States vessel. He held this position ...

The first White Castle opened in Wichita, Kansas in 1921, selling five-cent hamburgers that changed American fast food ...

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

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.