More than a million Americans have given their life in the name of their country. Some of the first gave it at the site of what is now Saratoga National Historical Park.
Published May 30, 2016
The national park tells the story of the “Lost Colony,” at Roanoke Island, and of the Native Americans who visited the island long before the English.
Published Apr 6, 2016
It was here the founders shaped the future of American government.
Published Jul 4, 2017
Surrounded by meandering rivers and a marshy landscape, this South Carolina city has been a focal point for American history and for shipping.
Published Jun 10, 2018
Sites relevant to the start of the American Revolutionary War are interspersed throughout the modern-day Boston metropolitan region.
Published Jul 4, 2016
The colonial communities of “America’s historic triangle” played defining roles in the road to American independence.
Published Jul 4, 2018
A shift in the winds has put worker camps north of Fort McMurray at risk.
Published May 17, 2016
Hakodate City is a seaport located on two bays in the Oshima Peninsula near the south end of the major Japanese island of Hokkaido. This image nicely illustrates how sunglint reflecting off the ocean reveals internal waves impinging on the coast. Also, from space, Hakodate is quite distinguished from other cities of it size, featuring a large five-pointed star near it center.
Published Sep 22, 2002
In this Florida town, you can find streets with reindeer names, a special mailbox for Santa Claus, and a fort that soldiers started building on December 25, 1837.
Published Dec 25, 2017
he southern tip of Spain and the northern tip of Africa come close to touching at the Strait of Gibraltar. The small Spanish enclave Ceuta occupies a narrow isthmus of land on the African side of the Strait of Gibraltar; the rest of the surrounding territory is Morocco.
Published Aug 27, 2007
Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the “Gettysburg Address” in November 1863, appears in this Ikonos satellite image from June 25, 2003.
Published Feb 12, 2009
In this astronaut photograph, winter snows outline the street grid of the Fort William part of Thunder Bay, while suburban parks appear as roughly rectangular areas of unbroken white snow.
Published Jan 26, 2009
The bright lights of Shanghai’s city center and the distinctive new skyscrapers that form the skyline along the Pudong district make for spectacular night viewing from space.
Published Apr 16, 2012
Buenos Aires is one of the larger cities seen by orbiting crews. Twelve million people, almost one third of all Argentines, live in this city, often called the “Paris of the South”.
Published Mar 16, 2003
Before shipping out to the New World, the group of religious separatists fled first to Amsterdam and Leiden.
Published Nov 24, 2017
A wildfire burned through neighborhoods in Fort McMurray, Alberta, displacing tens of thousands of residents.
Published May 5, 2016
Québec City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Americas, and the one that still feels closest to its roots.
Published Feb 12, 2018
Acquired December 15, 2009, this true-color image shows Avignon, France, immediately east of the Rhône River. Walls surround the city’s historic center. Industrial-style buildings predominate in the southwest and southeast.
Published Jan 24, 2010
