Shutterstock Hershey, Pennsylvania Milton Hershey broke ground for his chocolate factory in Derry Church, Pennsylvania, in ...

Wikimedia Commons/Mare Island Navy Yard The 1944 Port Chicago Explosion The Navy built Port Chicago Naval Magazine in 1942 to ...

Shutterstock Antelope Canyon Water carved this golden sandstone canyon over centuries near Page, Arizona on Navajo land. The ...

Shutterstock Manzanar National Historic Site The U.S. government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their West Coast ...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Navy USS Silversides The USS Silversides began service on December 15, 1941, eight days after the ...

Wikimedia Commons Ancient Architects of Wisconsin’s Animal Mounds The Late Woodland people built these mounds between 750 and ...

Wikimedia Commons The Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village The Mitchell villagers were among the first farming communities on ...

Wikimedia Commons/Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report The 1968 Poor People’s Campaign Martin Luther King Jr. planned ...

The Pearl Harbor Avenger Portsmouth Naval Shipyard got orders to build new submarines on December 15, 1941, just eight days ...

The 1942 Japanese Submarine Bombing of Mount Emily, Oregon The Japanese submarine I-25 reached southern Oregon in September ...

Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of the U.S. Navy The 1942 Japanese Balloon Bomb Attack (Oregon) Japan sent over 9,000 ...

Wikimedia Commons/Matthew.kowal Los Luceros, New Mexico Maria Chabot came to Los Luceros in 1939 after ending her seven-year ...