The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

Keet Seel lies within Navajo National Monument, accessed via Highway 564 near Shonto, Arizona (86054). Visitors must complete ...

In September 1670, Apache warriors launched a fierce attack on Las Humanas, the Pueblo settlement at Gran Quivira. They ...

Since 1868 the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara, collectively known as the Three Affiliated Tribes, have lived together on what ...

Most towns in the 1830s had one thing in common: white founders. But tucked away in western Illinois, a free Black man named ...

Grafton Ghost Town sits 3.5 miles from Highway 9 through Rockville, on the south bank of the Virgin River. Before Hollywood ...

Soap Lake sits in central Washington at the foot of the Grand Coulee. This unusual 2-square-mile lake reaches 70 feet deep ...

Scattered across Washington’s prairies sit thousands of grass-covered bumps that have puzzled scientists for decades. These ...

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

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

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

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 ...