“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
Author: Vanniyar Adrian
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
On September 28, 1965, six years after leading the Cuban Revolution and four years after the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs backed by
Postal voting can trace its roots to soldiers voting away from home during the Civil War and World War II. In the late 1800s, some
Five hundred and thirty-seven votes. That’s all that separated Democrat Al Gore and his Republican challenger George W. Bush when, on November 26, 2000, three