Less than a year after the destruction of the Berlin Wall, East Germany and West Germany come together for what is called “Unity Day”. Since
Author: Vanniyar Adrian
Illness can impact a president’s ability to perform office, but for much of U.S. history, protocol about what happens when a president falls ill was
When slavery ended in the United States, freedom still eluded African Americans who struggled with the repressive body of laws known as the Black Codes.
“THIS IS A WHITE MAN’S GOVERNMENT … We regard the (so-called) Reconstruction Acts of Congress as usurpations, unconstitutional, revolutionary and void. —Democratic platform. Cartoon by
Even before Jamestown or the Plymouth Colony, the oldest permanent European colony in what is now the United States was founded in September 1565 by
Flight attendant Paula Prince purchases a bottle of Tylenol containing cyanide. Prince was found dead on October 1, becoming the latest victim of a mysterious
On September 29, 1995, voting lawyer Willie Velasquez was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Velasquez and the organizations he founded are credited with
The 1980 Mariel Boatlift was a massive Cuban emigration to the United States. The exodus was driven by a stagnant economy that had weakened under
On September 28, 1918, a parade of the Liberty Loan in Philadelphia triggered a huge epidemic of Spanish flu in the city. By the end