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How a 1912 Utah copper mine became the deepest, most toxic excavation on Earth
Bingham Canyon Mine Utah Copper and Boston Consolidated Mining Company built the “largest industrial mining complex in the ...
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The March 1836 dawn attack where Mexican soldiers killed 189 Texan defenders in savage close combat
Wikimedia Commons/Karanacs The Fall of the Alamo Mexican forces attacked the Alamo at dawn on March 6, 1836, ending a 13-day ...
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The 1688 Quaker petition that became America’s first organized protest against slavery in colonial Pennsylvania
Wikimedia Commons/The Germantown Quakers The Germantown Protest, 1688 Four German Quakers wrote the first protest against ...
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How a single 18-minute assault in 1836 made Texas an independent republic
Wikimedia Commons/Jim Evans The Battle of San Jacinto The Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21, 1836, in what is now ...
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The NYC suburb built on 21,000 tons of chemical waste and pushed Congress to create the Superfund law
Wikimedia Commons/USGS The Love Canal Disaster William T. Love started digging a canal in 1894 near Niagara Falls to create ...
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The fearless Black journalist who documented 728 lynchings in 1892 and changed how America saw racial violence
Wikimedia Commons/William_Avery Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells published “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” ...
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How a concrete arch in downtown St. Louis became America’s most controversial national park in 2018
Shutterstock Gateway Arch National Park The tall steel arch in St. Louis marks America’s smallest national park. The 91-acre ...
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America’s largest slave trafficking operation ran from this pen in 1828 Virginia until Union troops shut it down
Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in ...
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How the last slave ship to reach America in 1860 was found rotting in Alabama’s Mobile River
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown photographer, from Historic sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The ...
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The 1991 discovery of 419 African graves that revealed Manhattan’s massive colonial-era slave cemetery
Shutterstock The African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, New York From the late 1600s to 1794, a 6.6-acre plot in Lower ...
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To avoid re-enslavement, this Virginia man had to get a Certificate of Freedom every two year until slavery was abolished in 1865
Wikimedia Commons/The Illustrated London News Joseph Trammell’s Freedom Papers Joseph Trammell was born enslaved in Virginia ...
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How a blind slave boy became the first Black musician to perform at the White House in 1860
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author Blind Tom’s White House Performance Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in ...