Shutterstock The Closest the Confederacy Came to the Capitol The Confederacy’s last real shot at winning came in summer 1864 ...

Shutterstock From Grand Deportation Survivors to Instant Americans In 1785, homeless Acadians built a settlement in no man’s ...

Flickr/tedeytan The remarkable Carter Woodson Carter Woodson turned his modest DC rowhouse into the nerve center of Black history. The Harvard PhD worked from 1538 9th Street NW to launch Negro ...

Shutterstock The Pig War Standoff of 1859 In 1859, an American farmer shot a British pig on San Juan Island. That single ...