The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Kennesaw Mountain was the site of a critical battle in the Union’s campaign for Atlanta during the Civil War. After the Union penetrated Confederate lines at Chattanooga, the Confederates retreated to Atlanta. General William T. Sherman outflanked Confederate General Joseph ...

San Francisco’s Ohlone Shellmounds

Natives have inhabited the San Francisco Bay area for thousands of years, and physical reminders of their complex cultures still remain, just under city’s busy streets.

The San Francisco Bay area is the ancestral home of the Ohlone people, known ...

National Historic Landmark - First Church of Christ Congregational

The First Church of Christ, Congregational, the third building on this site, was designed by architect and master builder Judah Woodruff in 1771. It is the only original Congregational church in Connecticut with a side entry--the traditional, colonial New England ...

Austin F. Williams Carriagehouse and House

Austin F. Williams and his wife Jennet Cowles Williams were known abolitionists. During the Mende's imprisonment, Williams corresponded with his friend Lewis Tappan, a member of the Amistad Committee that had been established for the defense of the Amistad captives and was ...

The Birthplace of Hip Hop

Constructed in 1967, the apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, located in the Bronx borough of New York City, is widely accepted as the birthplace of the Hip Hop movement.

The 102-unit apartment complex was developed in response to the construction ...

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument preserves cliff dwellings and other significant archeological remains left by prehistoric American Indians of the Mogollan Culture. The well preserved cliff dwellings, constructed in the late 1200s, contain 42 rooms and are located within ...

Fort Stanton

Fort Stanton was established in 1855 to help defend against Mescalero Apache raids in central New Mexico. Used as a center for military activities and as a point of departure for numerous scouting expeditions and raids, the fort was ...

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian

Constructed in 1937 by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is significant for the role it has played in assembling, preserving and studying the artifacts and recordings of the Navajo religion. Mary Cabot Wheelwright (1878 ...

Santa Fe Plaza

Santa Fe Plaza has been the commercial, social and political center of Santa Fe since c. 1610 when it was established by Don Pedro de Peralta. The original Plaza was a presidio (fort) surrounded by a large defensive wall ...

Palace of the Governors

The Palace of the Governors, the oldest extant public building in the United States, was constructed c. 1610 by Don Pedro de Peralta, the first Spanish royal governor of New Mexico and the founder of Santa Fe. The low ...