How Willie Nelson Helped Build Farm Aid In the mid-1980s, American farmers faced economic difficulties unknown since the Great Depression. The droughts of 1980 and
Author: Vanniyar Adrian
It’s one of the most iconic photos in American history. A woman in ragged clothes holds a baby as two other children come closer, hiding
Shortly before noon, May 6, 1884, Ulysses S. Grant entered the office of his Wall Street brokerage firm, a wealthy man. A few hours later,
On May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri. The son of a farmer, Truman couldn’t afford to go to college. He
On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) broke out across Europe, a German submarine torpedoed and sank the RMS
The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 was the deadliest flu epidemic in history, killing up to 50 million people worldwide. In the United States,
Ulysses S. Grant, a graduate of the American Military Academy at West Point in 1843, did not go there because he dreamed of being a
On June 19, 1982, an American Chinese man named Vincent Chin went with friends to a strip club in Detroit to celebrate his upcoming marriage.
Richard Nixon couldn’t sleep. Four days after the shootings in Kent State, the President sat in the living room next to the Lincoln Room, listening