Category: History Knowledge

Among the first stewards of the country’s national parks were soldiers of separate black regiments. Beginning in the 1890s, Buffalo soldiers, who had gained value

Henry Ossian Flipper, born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1856, became the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy

In desperate times, your enemy’s enemy becomes your friend. During the Second World War, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union would never

On June 12, 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “demolish” the Berlin

During the hot and humid summer of 1793, thousands of Philadelphians fell horribly ill, suffering from fever and chills, yellowish skin, stomach pain and vomiting

Faced with federated Alabama National Guard troops, Alabama Governor George Wallace ends its blockade of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and allows two African

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway – one of the most decisive American victories in its war against Japan – ended. During the

On June 6, 1944, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, gave the green light to the largest amphibious military operation

The first and second amendments get a lot of attention, but the third rarely goes to court. It reads as follows: “No soldier shall, in