As superpower nations vied for outposts in the Americas, the English King James I chartered another attempt to colonize North America, which resulted in the Jamestown Colony being settled on May 13th, 1607.

Woodrow Wilson was lauded for his leadership during WWI but his views on race, slavery and segregation halted progress towards racial equality during the early 20th-Century.

In March of 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire burned the New York City building, trapping many due to fire prevention misconduct and ultimately taking the lives of 146 mostly young immigrant women.

Deemed America’s most commercially successful artist during the late 19th- and early 20th-Centuries, Howard Chandler Christy illustrated his Christy Girls, setting the tone for the idealized feminine form and fashion.

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.