Category: History Knowledge

For centuries, black Americans have used music as a powerful tool. In the pre-war South, slaves sang spirituals to secretly plan their escape to freedom.

For four days in November-December 1943, as the Second World War raged, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met in secret in the

The invention of the modern mumps vaccine is legendary in medical textbooks. In 1963, a star researcher from the pharmaceutical company Merck took a sample

On June 22, 1941, more than 3 million German soldiers invaded Russia in three parallel offensives, in what is the most powerful invading force in

On June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented piece of legislation designed to compensate members of the returning armed

In what is now known as Juneteenth, June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrive in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War is over and

This is why D.C. license plates say “End of taxation without representation”. Before the American Revolution, one of the main complaints from settlers about the

On August 21, 1831, the enslaved Virginian Nat Turner led a bloody revolt, which changed the course of American history. The Southampton Uprising killed approximately

In June 1941, the Americans heard of an extraordinary British mission to France occupied by the Nazis. Newspapers, including the Baltimore sun and New York