Wikimedia Commons/Florida Memory St. Augustine, America’s First Permanent European Settlement Spain had bombed out six times ...

Wikimedia Commons/W.W. Rice at the American Banknote Company for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing John Billington, the ...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Public Health Service The Louisiana Leper Home In 1894, Louisiana built America’s first leprosy ...

Wikimedia Commons/John Whetten Ehninger Tituba, The Mysterious Enslaved Woman Who Sparked Salem’s Witch Hunt A teenage ...

Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...

Wikimedia Commons/ National Archives and Records Administration Wong Kim Ark and the 14th Amendment In 1895, a young man named Wong Kim Ark stood on a steamship in San Francisco Bay, barred from ...

Wikimedia Commons/Digital Public Library of America online exhibition The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike Twenty thousand workers ...

Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 In 1877, America was deep in a four-year economic slump.

Wikimedia Commons/Hawaii State Archives Hawaii’s Bayonet Constitution of 1887 In 1887, armed white businessmen cornered ...

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Wikimedia Commons/James J. Williams The 1893 coup that destroyed Hawaiian sovereignty In 1893, thirteen businessmen staged ...

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