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Family · Ganado, Arizona, United States
The Hubbell Family of Ganado
1878 - 1967
One family stood behind the same counter for eighty-nine years, and it is still a working trading post.
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Family · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
The Delany Family of Raleigh
1858
A man born into slavery in 1858 raised ten children on a college campus, and two of his daughters lived long enough to tell the whole story themselves.
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Family · Walla Walla, Washington, United States
The Sager Children
1844
Seven children crossed the plains in 1844.
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Family · Donora, Pennsylvania, United States
The Donora Smog of 1948
October 27, 1948
For five days at the end of October 1948, the air in a mill town in the Monongahela Valley killed twenty people, and the football game went ahead anyway because nobody understoo...
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Family · Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
The Whiskey Rebellion
1791 - 1794
The first tax the United States ever laid on a domestic product was a tax on whiskey, and within three years it had seven thousand armed men gathered on a field outside Pittsbur...
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Family · Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
The Tuskegee Study
1932 - 1972
Almost everything most people believe about this study is wrong in one specific way, and the correction belongs at the top rather than buried at the bottom.
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Family · Elaine, Arkansas, United States
The Elaine Massacre
1919
On the night of 30 September 1919 about a hundred Black farmers met in a church at Hoop Spur, three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas, to talk about how to get paid for their cotton.
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Family · Ord, Nebraska, United States
The Children's Blizzard of 1888
January 12, 1888
The morning was warm enough that some of them went to school without their coats.
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Family · Pawhuska, Oklahoma, United States
The Osage Reign of Terror
1918 - 1931
In 1923 the Osage took in more than thirty million dollars from the oil under their own land, and most of them could not spend a dollar of it without asking a white guardian for...
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Family · Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States
The Deaf Community of Martha's Vineyard
1694 - 1952
On this island, for something like two hundred and fifty years, deaf people were not a category.
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Family · New York, New York, United States
The Orphan Trains
1854 - 1929
Fewer than half of them were orphans.
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