In 1895, a young man named Wong Kim Ark stood on a steamship in San Francisco Bay, barred from entering his own country. Born in California to Chinese parents, he faced a government that claimed he ...

Wikimedia Commons/Digital Public Library of America online exhibition The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike Twenty thousand workers ...

Wikimedia Commons/Harper's Weekly The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 In 1877, America was deep in a four-year economic slump.

Wikimedia Commons/Hawaii State Archives Hawaii’s Bayonet Constitution of 1887 In 1887, armed white businessmen cornered ...

Wikimedia Commons/Miscellaneous Items in High Demand, PPOC, Library of Congress When the British Burned Washington, D.C.

Wikimedia Commons/James J. Williams The 1893 coup that destroyed Hawaiian sovereignty In 1893, thirteen businessmen staged ...

Wikimedia Commons/Scan by NYPL How Tuberculosis Helped Put Colorado on the Map Before antibiotics, tuberculosis meant a death ...

Wikimedia Commons/Bear Flag Museum, The Bear Flag Revolt of 1846 In 1846, a bunch of American settlers got fed up with ...

Shutterstock The Goliad Massacre Santa Anna had a simple rule for foreign fighters: shoot them all. When 400 Texan rebels ...

Wikimedia Commons/John Wesley Jarvis How America’s First Multimillionaire Got Rich Smuggling Opium The richest man in 1800s ...

In 1951, a young girl named Linda Brown walked six blocks just to catch a bus to her all-Black school. A white school sat ...

Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy US Navy Sailor Doris "Dorie" Miller, first black recipient of the Navy ...