Between the opening of the French Revolution in 1789 and the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, Spanish artist Francisc... MoreFrancisco Goya
In the mid-1840s, a group of 33 settlers, their goods, and animals began moving west by wagon train from Springfield, Il... MoreThe Donner Party: A Doomed Journey
He read and wrote with the greatest of passions. And Jorge Luis Borges, the greatest of Argentine writers, created, thro... MoreJorge Luis Borges
He was born in New York City, and he died in New York City. But Tito Puente would live his life as a Puerto Rican who wo... MoreTito Puente
For four straight years, the people of the United States fought against one another in a brutal civil war that resulted ... MoreCivil War Battles
When it was completed in 1825, the Erie Canal caused a great sensation. Though plans for an artificial waterway to link ... MoreThe Erie Canal: Linking the Great Lakes
From April 1860 to October 1861, the mail service known as the Pony Express operated between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and... MoreThe Pony Express
In 1607, American Indians, hidden along the banks of a Virginia river, watched as three boats filled with bearded strang... MoreJamestown
In the centuries following the ""discovery"" of the Americas in 1492, representatives of the great Spanish Empire attemp... MoreSanta Fe
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