Hueco Tanks, Texas

The Hueco Tanks area in Texas was home to indigenous people for thousands of years.

Hueco Tanks rock art photo from WikiCommons

Los Braceros

The Braceros Program was implemented during World War One and Two to recruit farmworkers from Mexico to work in the United States.

An exhibit of Braceros artifacts in the El Paso Museum of History

The Second Reich’s Genocide

In the midst of a bitter war, the German government began to round up people of particular ethnicities which it considered to be subhuman enemies, gathered them into concentration camps, and worked them to death as slave labor in a deliberate policy of extermination and  genocide. But this was not the Third Reich in Europe in 1940. It was the Second Reich in Africa in 1904.

Captured and chained Herero prisoners                   
photo from WikiCommons

The Hodges Meteorite

The Hodges Meteorite, on display in Tuscaloosa AL, is the first known example of a space rock that hit and injured a human.

The Hodges Meteorite, on display at the Alabama Museum of Natural History

The Battle of Lake Okeechobee

The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was part of the Seminole Wars, which have now been mostly forgotten.

General Zachary Taylor photo from WikiCommons