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Photo of men testing an electric train in Thomas Edison experimental laboratory. Menlo Park, 13th May 1880.

Zap! American Railroads Go Electric

by Richard Brownell6/20/20236/22/2023

Photo of The Drake Well Museum and Park, where in 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a successful oil well and launched the modern oil industry, Titusville, Pennsylvania.

The Small Pennsylvania Town Where the US Oil Industry Started

by Heidi Campbell-Shoaf6/13/20236/13/2023

Photo of a Colonial Revival kitchen that was created in 1930 and sponsored by Oklahoma at the DAR museum.

What Does Home Mean?

by Melissa A. Winn6/6/20236/7/2023

A 1873 photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan captures the fortresslike canyon from the ground as both Spanish and American invaders would have seen it.

Attacked by Both Spanish and American Invaders, This Sandstone Navajo Stronghold Was Built for Defense

by David T. Zabecki6/2/20236/9/2023

female captive held by Comanche warriors

This Hardy Texas Pioneer Witnessed the Deaths of Many a Loved One and Escaped Comanche Captivity

by Chuck Lyons6/2/20235/12/2023

Abandoned wooden schoolhouse

Amid Prohibition One Wily Entrepreneur Found Copper Indispensable in This Montana Town

by Terry Halden5/19/20235/12/2023

California is Having Another Gold Rush. Here’s Where to Try Your Hand at Panning.

by Krista Simmons5/15/20235/16/2023

Thanks to Epic Rains, There’s a New Gold Rush in California — But Will Anyone Strike It Rich?

by David Lauterborn5/9/20235/16/2023

Galloping Goose train

Tracking the History of Mile-High Railroads

by Linda Wommack5/8/20235/8/2023

Captain John Williams Gunnison

The Time the US Army Almost Went to War with Utah’s Mormons in 1854

by Will Gorenfeld4/14/20234/14/2023