Category: History Knowledge

When he ran for the White House in 1960, John F. Kennedy faced a tight race. Kennedy and his Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, have been

After more than four years of Nazi occupation, Paris was liberated by the 2nd French Armored Division and the 4th American Infantry Division. German resistance

On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. But the dictators, despite

American presidential history is filled with “firsts”. First president? George Washington. First president to die in office? William Henry Harrison. First president to serve two

The Vietnam War (1955-1975) was fought between Communist North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union and China, and South Vietnam, supported by the United States.

Sergeant Charles Floyd dies three months after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark began the journey, becoming the only Corps of Discovery member to die during

On August 20, 1619, “20 and some” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and were then bought by English

Hurricane Katrina, the tropical cyclone that hit the Gulf Coast in August 2005, was the third strongest hurricane to hit the United States in its

More than a decade before American women won the right to vote, a 32-year-old woman stepped into the role of governor of Oregon, becoming the