On this day in 1832, the first battle of Black Hawk's War occurred. The battle was named for the panicked retreat by Major Isaiah Stillman and his detachment of 275 Illinois militia after being attac…

Nianga was a central African man from the Congo region who was sold into slavery in the 1500's and taken to New Spain (Mexico). He escaped his enslavers around 1570 with a band of other enslaved peop…