Cleopatra’s death seems to have taken place as dramatically as the life she lived. After the Egyptian Queen and her longtime lover, Roman General Mark
Author: Vanniyar Adrian
In the late summer of 1918, the second devastating wave of Spanish influenza arrived on the American coast. Carried by First World War doughboys returning
In early 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered his 12th year as President of the United States. The popular Democratic leader had led his country through
The Great Depression was a difficult time that turned life in the United States, when millions of people struggled to find and cope with work.
In 1636, according to an 1841 account by Scottish author Charles MacKay, all of Dutch society went mad with exotic tulips. As Mackay wrote in
As human civilizations expand, infectious diseases also emerge. Large groups of people living close together along with animals that were poorly maintained or malnourished provided
On April 17, 1957, Maurice Hilleman realized that a pandemic was en route to the United States. That day, The New York Times reported a
In 1972, it seemed that ratifying the equal rights amendment was almost a sure thing. First proposed to Congress in 1923 by suffragist Alice Paul,
Dwight Eisenhower, the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, would never forget the moment his boots hit the sand during Operation Overlord – the