On May 17, 1769, George Washington launched a legislative salvo during Britain’s fiscal and judicial attempts to maintain control over the American colonies. With the
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In the summer of 1945, as the Second World War drew to a close, the American economy was on the verge of an uncertain future.
On July 14, 1881, Western outlaw Billy the Kid died. On July 14, 1881, he went to his friend Pete Maxwell’s home in Fort Sumner,
A year after the United States doubled its territory with the purchase of Louisiana, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves Saint-Louis, Missouri, on a mission
In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive his commission from Abraham Lincoln as lieutenant-general at the head of all Union
When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, America was waging a war on two fronts: one for the independence of the
It was the ultimate experience of social distancing. On September 26, 1991, four men and four women in dark blue coveralls said goodbye to friends,
In the summer of 1965, support for the conflict in Vietnam eroded, advisers to President Lyndon B. Johnson recommending sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers
The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby was found on May 12, 1932, more than two months after being kidnapped from his family’s mansion