Lakshmi Gandhi

Chinese immigrant workers and Indigenous tribes paid a particularly high price.

They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more.

Armed with swords, bows and arrows, axes and spears, the Trung sisters and their army  stormed 65 Chinese-run citadels. They became national heroines.

Obtaining the vote was just one item on a long civil rights agenda.

They had a profound effect on the massive world of American food production.

From David Letterman's emotional monologue to George W. Bush's World Series first pitch, these collective experiences helped the nation process its shock and grief.

Classic Westerns have cemented the image of cowboys as white Americans, but the first wave of horse-riding cow wranglers in North America were Indigenous Mesoamerican men.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed her original board game as a critique, not a tribute, to capitalism.