A small island in New York harbor becomes the gateway of freedom for millions of immigrants.

First cobbled together from dirt and gravel roads, Route 66 eventually became America’s first, fully paved transcontinental highway.

Before it became an Olympic sport, basketball began in Massachusetts with a soccer ball and two peach baskets.

The Roaring Twenties came to an abrupt end with the Crash of October, 1929.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivers the most important speech of the Civil Rights Movement.

In the century following the Battle of Lexington, artists depicted the event in various and sometimes competing ways.