Captain William Van Schaick steered the burning boat toward North Brother Island, running it onto shore 25 feet from land.

Finnish soldiers on skis beat Russian forces during the 1939-1940 Winter War by moving quietly through forests where tanks ...

The Pennsylvania System came up with the idea of solitary confinement. The goal was to have prisoners contemplate their ...

On September 17, 1862, over 23,000 soldiers fell in a single day near the small town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. The battle ...

President James Buchanan sent the unarmed ship Star of the West with 200 soldiers and supplies on January 9, 1861. When it ...

Chicago newspapers picked up stories from Utah papers. The Utah paper ran the big headline “The New Gold Mines” and said the finds had “set the people wild.” Other papers kept writing about it, which ...

Black and brown round pebbles fill the low spots all over White Pocket. These metal-looking balls are made from iron and ...

Arlington National Cemetery wasn’t always a cemetery at all. The land once belonged to the family of Confederate General ...

Howard Perry went broke in 1942 during World War II. The weird thing was, mercury prices hit their highest point ever at $193 ...

Builders finished the West Ruin between 1100-1130. This huge U-shaped building is originally stood three stories tall with ...

Workers built a new visitor center in 1959, made to look like an early 1800s building. That same year, more people visited ...

Around 4:00 p.m., Union positions north and west of Gettysburg broke. Federal troops retreated through town to Cemetery Hill and Culp’s Hill, forming a fishhook-shaped line along Cemetery Ridge.