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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” on October 26, 1892. She wrote this key document while living in New York, ...
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New Mexico’s forgotten 1979 uranium catastrophe that poisoned 80 miles of the Puerco River with radioactive sludge
Wikimedia Commons/EPA The 1979 Church Rock Uranium Spill United Nuclear Corporation ran the largest underground uranium mine in the United States at Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation pulled over ...
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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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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 ...
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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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The 1963 Montana mining town where asbestos dust killed 400 residents before EPA discovered the cover-up
Shutterstock Libby, Montana Gold miners found vermiculite in Libby, Montana in 1881. Edgar Alley saw this mineral expand when ...
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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 one Black nurse in 1945 forced the Army to integrate its medical corps during World War II
Wikimedia Commons/Adam Cuerden Maj Della Raney Della Hayden Raney was born January 10, 1912, in Suffolk, Virginia to George ...
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How Revolutionary raiders seized Fort Ticonderoga in May 1775 by catching British officers asleep
Wikimedia Commons/John Steeple Davis Fort Ticonderoga’s Bloodless Capture Fort Ticonderoga guarded key water routes between ...