On March 23, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker left the port of Valdez, Alaska, bound for Long Beach, California. The ship contained 53 million gallons of crude oil. Shortly after midnight, the ship struck the Bligh Reef, a well-known navigation hazard in Alaska’s Prince William Sound. The collision tore apart the ship’s hull and […]
Month: June 2021
The Trail of Tears: The Seminoles strike back
In the 1830s, 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. Their ancestors cultivated and occupied the land for generations. White Americans feared and resented the Native Americans they encountered. Though the Native Americans occupied the land first, to the whites they were aliens who […]
The Lewis & Clark & York Expedition
Most people are aware of the Lewis and Clark expedition. It was an expedition to cross the newly gained western portion of the United States, also known as the Louisiana Purchase made in 1803. The land expanded from modern day St. Louis to Montana; the trek went further though to modern day Washington. Key members […]
