The imposing outcrop of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz Island is synonymous with inescapable fear and unforgiving intimidation—its notoriety inextricably linked to its 29-year tenure as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. While this era of infamy has captured the public imagination, it represents only a single chapter of the island’s complex historical narrative. While surveying San Francisco Bay in August 1775, Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala chartered a prominent ro

Located within the historic urban landscape of Savannah, Georgia, Old Fort Jackson stands with subtle significance as one of the nation’s...

Located within Charleston’s Ashley River Historic District, Middleton Place once served as the main residence for South Carolina’s...

Muir Woods National Monument preserves one of the last remaining old-growth redwood forests in the United States. While redwoods once...