Old Patent Office

The Old Patent Office Building was the third building constructed in the District of Columbia after the White House and the United States Capitol. When it was completed in the late 1800s, it was the largest office building in the ...

Pittsburgh's Hill District_Malina Suity

In the 1950s, the city of Pittsburgh demolished 95 acres of the Lower Hill neighborhood to construct what would one day be the Civic Arena. The project displaced over 1,000 families, with many relocating to public housing, and cut a ...

Harwick Mine Disaster_Malina Suity

Imagine an entire community's population and livelihood devastated by a single event. That was what happened to the people in the small mining town of Harwick, Pennsylvania on the morning of January 25th, 1904. The mine was new, it had ...

Gallaudet University

At a time when education for disabled students was uncommon, Gallaudet University was the first collegiate level educational institution for deaf and visually impaired students.

In 1856, Amos Kendall, former United States Postmaster, donated two acres of land and hired ...

World Trade Center Site

On May 2, 2011, President Barack Obama announced to the American people the death of Osama bin Laden, the lead mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks. bin Laden's death brought some relief and closure to many Americans. However, his ...

Bosley Hall/The Old Baltimore Jail

It is ironic that local executives turned the Old Baltimore County Jail, which once housed convicted felons during the 18th and 19th centuries, into an office building.

Still showing off its pre-Civil War prison architecture, visitors to the city of ...

National Historic Landmark- Cape Krusenstern Archeological Site

A series of 114 marine beach ridges, formed at an average of perhaps 60 years each since the time of the highest post-glacial sea level, the district contains the remains of peoples who have inhabited these beaches for 5,000 or ...

National Historic Landmark- Birnirk Site

Composed of a group of 16 mounds arranged in rows roughly parallel to the beach, this site is associated with the Birnirk and Thule cultures, both belonging to the North Alaskan branch of the Northern Maritime tradition, the earliest manifestation ...

National Historic Landmark- Bering Expedition Landing Site

Here naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's ST. PETER, made the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives.

His investigations are among the first contributions to the West's knowledge of the natural and human history of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Attu Battlefield

Attu was the site of the only World War II battle fought in North America. Its occupation by Japanese troops marked the peak of Japan's military expansion in the North Pacific.

Its recapture by Americans in 1943 was costly for both ...