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In a precursor to Memorial Day, people in Charleston, South Carolina, honored fallen Civil War troops with flowers, songs, and…
After marching from Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, and…
The colossal project created a valuable connection between the U.S. interior and the Atlantic Ocean when it opened in October…
New York City’s Manhattan Island was the site of the nation’s first Labor Day parade on September 5, 1882.
Samuel Pierpont Langley conducted the first successful flight of an unpiloted, engine-driven, heavier-than-air craft from a houseboat near Chopawamsic Island…
Forests play a key role in filtering the waters of a reservoir in central Massachusetts that’s home to submerged towns…
Well-wishers in Hawaii welcomed the astronauts on July 26, 1969, after they landed on the Moon, splashed down in the…
The farms and gardens of Mount Vernon played a central role in the life of America’s first president.
The setting for John Henry’s legendary contest with a steam-powered drill may have been this tunnel through Big Bend Mountain…
