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Canyon de Chelly National Monument

This canyon is home to Diné families who raise livestock, grow crops and live here. People have lived in these […]

The US Army established Camp Nelson as a fortified supply depot in April 1863. Over the next 3 years, the

Welcome to Buck Island Reef National Monument, called “the finest marine garden in the Caribbean Sea” by President John F.

In 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo climbed out of his boat and onto shore, becoming the first European to set foot

Booker T. Washington was born a slave in April 1856 on the 207-acre farm of James Burroughs. After the Civil

In 1963, images of snarling police dogs unleashed against non-violent protesters and of children being sprayed with high-pressure hoses appeared

Bandelier National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of ruggedly beautiful canyon and mesa country. Petroglyphs, dwellings carved into the soft

Home to the National Woman’s Party for more than 90 years, this was the epicenter of the struggle for women’s

Aztec Ruins has some of the best-preserved Chacoan structures of its kind. Learn more about the ancestral Pueblo people in

13,000 years ago, Alibates Flint was used by mammoth hunters as a source of flint for tools. Learn how important

The African Burial Ground stands as the oldest and largest known excavated burial site in North America for both free

In the early 1900s, paleontologists unearthed the Age of Mammals when they found full skeletons of extinct Miocene mammals in