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The Michigan museum ship that sank 90,650 tons of enemy ships in World War II
Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...
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The “Pearl Harbor Avenger” that terrorized Japan’s Pacific fleet for 9 straight war patrols
The Pearl Harbor Avenger Portsmouth Naval Shipyard got orders to build new submarines on December 15, 1941, just eight days ...
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The deadliest homefront disaster of WWII killed 202 Black sailors and sparked the largest mutiny trial in US history
Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...
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The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign that turned the National Mall into a protest slum for 42 days
Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...
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The Japanese balloon bomb that drifted 5,000 miles to kill an Oregon family during WWII
Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy The 1942 Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack (Oregon) Japan sent over 9,000 ...
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This Oregon forest is the only American ground ever bombed from an enemy plane
The 1942 Japanese Submarine Bombing of Mount Emily, Oregon The Japanese submarine I-25 reached southern Oregon in September ...
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How eminent domain erased an entire Appalachian community to create a national park
Wikimedia Commons/Ken Thomas Cataloochee Valley Cataloochee Valley was home to over 750 people by the early 1900s in what is ...
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South Dakota’s only public dig site reveals a 1000-year-old village built like a medieval fortress
Wikimedia Commons The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village The Mitchell villagers were among the first farming communities on ...
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The Oklahoma town so toxic, 63% of local children tested positive for lead poisoning
Shutterstock Picher, Oklahoma Picher began in 1913 after miners found lead and zinc ore on land owned by Harry Crawfish, a ...
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How a F4 tornado exposed the deadly levels of lead poisoning this entire Kansas town
Wikimedia Commons/Kswx29 The 1999 Treece Tornado, Kansas Treece began in 1917 in the Tri-State Mining District that crossed ...
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How a New Mexico ranch sheltered the Southwest’s LGBTQ women in the 1930s
Wikimedia Commons/Matthew.kowal Los Luceros, New Mexico Maria Chabot came to Los Luceros in 1939 after ending her seven-year ...
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Two ships full of illegal Catholics landed on this tiny Maryland island in 1634 and built America’s first religious refuge
Wikimedia Commons/Pubdog St. Mary’s City, Maryland George Calvert wanted a place where people of all faiths could worship freely. He asked King Charles I for land to build this colony. George died ...