Wikimedia Commons/Our special artist John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry Most people plan bank heists for money. John Brown planned an armory heist to free slaves. On October 16, 1859, the radical ...

Shutterstock The Four Chaplains of the USAT Dorchester Four men of different faiths stood together as death approached. On ...

Wikimedia Commons/Advanced Source Productions How Don Juan de Oñate almost exterminated the Acoma Puebloans In 1599, Spanish ...

Creator of the polio vaccine, who gave it away for free In 1955, Jonas Salk could have become one of the richest men in ...

Wikimedia Commons The iconic flag raising on Mt Suribachi Joe Rosenthal almost missed the shot. The Associated Press ...

Wikimedia Commons/C. Tucker Beckett The Pancho Villa Expedition A failed raid on a sleepy border town triggered America’s ...

Wikimedia Commons Sergeant Alvin York and the Meuse-Argonne Offensive One man, one rifle, one impossible situation. Sergeant ...

Wikimedia Commons The Delaware Crossing Christmas 1776 was supposed to be the end of the American Revolution. Washington’s ...

Wikimedia Commons/Waud, William, -1878, artist General Sherman’s Carolinas Campaign Sherman’s march didn’t end at the ocean.

Wikimedia Commons/Nick Dowling The Battle of Samar Six escort carriers faced down a massive Japanese fleet on October 25, ...

Wikimedia Commons/Internet Archive Book Images Major General George Thomas’s division at The Battle of Chickamauga Most Civil War nicknames came from brave charges or clever tactics. George Thomas got ...

Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army Signal Corps The US Army’s Heroism at The Battle of the Bulge December 1944 was supposed to be ...