Each year, millions of Americans must accumulate their financial records and fill out forms – or pay professionals to do it for them – in
Author: Vanniyar Adrian
For millennia, a diagnosis of leprosy meant a life sentence of social isolation. People with the disease now known as Hansen’s disease – a bacterial
For almost 56 hours after the launch of the Apollo 13 mission on April 11, 1970, it appeared to be the smoothest flight in NASA’s
The United States has never delayed a presidential election. But there was one case where some wondered if the country should do it: when
Blood remained fresh on the snow outside Boston Customs on the morning of March 6, 1770. A few hours earlier, rising tensions between British troops
The plague ravaged major cities and provincial towns in northern and central Italy from 1629 to 1631, killing over 45,000 people in Venice and wiping
The last known survivor of the last American slave ship died in 1940—75 years after the abolition of slavery. Her name was Matilda McCrear. When
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the United States was entering the fourth year of the Great Depression, the worst economic
When the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separate schools for whites and blacks were unconstitutional and inherently unequal, the slow and often violent dismantling