After Mexico refused to sell land to U.S. President Polk, his belief in manifest destiny led to his declaration of war in 1846. The Mexican American War would ultimately last for two years, costing Mexico a lot of lives and land

Considering the mission for a moon landing would cost 4% of the national budget for a decade, it took clever marketing for NASA to convince Congress and the American people to support a moonshot.

Four black students refused to vacate a white’s only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, setting off a civil rights movement of peaceful protests and sit ins.

America’s first astronauts sprung from Russia’s successful satellite launch, Sputnik. NASA went on to promote the likes of Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and More.

President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference had a mental breakdown most likely caused by a high fever associated with the Spanish Flu of 1918.

In 1962, a massive seam of underground coal caught fire turning Centralia, Pennsylvania into a burning ghost town. The government seized the land under imminent domain, forcing all but five residents from the town.

Hollywood’s picturesque pioneer of the American west, Kit Carson was known as a fur trader, guide, decorated war hero, and ultimately the symbol of Native American mistreatment.