In 1830, President Andrew Jackson gained congressional passage of the Indian Removal Act which by 1837 had forced some 46,000 Native Americans from their homeland to free up 25 million acres for resettlement by European immigrants.

After gold attracted Euro-American miners to Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho lands, chief Red Cloud turned to guerrilla-style attacks in what would become Red Cloud’s War, which ended in the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

Bacon’s Rebellion was the result of rising tensions between the Virginia Governor and Nathaniel Bacon, the leader of a group of extremists who burned down the Jamestown colony.

The first cross-country trip by car was completed in less than 65 days by Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, bicycle mechanic Sewall Crocker and a bulldog named Bud, winning a fifty-dollar bet that inspired the trip.

The Sign Wars were a series of messages between competing businesses that brought much-needed humor during a time of nationwide stress as news of the pandemic, climate change and more persisted.

On March 28th, 1979, the pressure valve in the Unit Two reactor at Three Mile Island malfunctioned, beginning the meltdown process that was successfully remediated but not without panic and public perception turning against Nuclear’s promise of clean energy.

As Gold-Seeking Anglo Americans forced Native Americans from their land, Colonel John Chivington ordered his soldiers to attack the Cheyenne and Arapahoe encampment, known as the Sand Creek Massacre.