19 facts across the U.S.
The Alaska Language Center at the University of Fairbanks is a research center that aims to document and cultivate the n…
Arizona is the home to 27 different indigenous tribes of people including the Navajo Nation, the country's most populous…
American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) is found primarily in the deciduous forests of the Ozark region in northern Arkan…
47 hot springs flow from the southwestern slope of Hot Springs Mountain in Arkansas with an average temperature of 143 d…
The Charter Oak was a majestic, unusually large white oak tree growing on Wyllys Hyll in Hartford, Connecticut, from aro…
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park, in present-day Macon, Georgia, has evidence of 17,000 years of continuous huma…
The potato wasn't what built Idaho. The fur trade, and then a series of gold and silver rushes, drove the state's early…
Cahokia, located just across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis in southwestern Illinois, was the largest…
Iowa earned its nickname "The Hawkeye State" in honor of Chief Black Hawk (c. 1767–1838), a Sauk war leader who fought t…
Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeastern Iowa preserves more than 200 prehistoric earthen mounds built by Native…
The Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620 aboard the Mayflower were not the first Europeans to visit the Massachusetts…
The word "Mississippi" comes from the Ojibwe name "Misi-ziibi," meaning simply "Great River", and it earns the title. Th…
The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in eastern Montana on June 25 and 26, 1876, when Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Cu…
The city of Taos, New Mexico has been home to one of the most continuously inhabited communities in North America. Taos…
Oklahoma has 39 federally recognized Native American tribes, more than any other state in the country, a legacy of the f…
Oklahoma's Chickasaw National Recreation Area was originally Platt National Park — the smallest national park ever creat…
The Crazy Horse Memorial being carved into Thunderhead Mountain in the Black Hills near Custer, South Dakota will be the…
Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border is one of the most filmed landscapes in the world, its distinctive red sandst…
Devils Tower in the Black Hills of northeastern Wyoming was the first U.S. National Monument, designated by President Th…