Category: History Knowledge

You’ve heard of the Vietnam War, but what about the “secret war” in Laos? More than 16 million members of the largest generation fought in

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first birth control bill – Enovid-10, manufactured by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. The

How Willie Nelson Helped Build Farm Aid In the mid-1980s, American farmers faced economic difficulties unknown since the Great Depression. The droughts of 1980 and

It’s one of the most iconic photos in American history. A woman in ragged clothes holds a baby as two other children come closer, hiding

Shortly before noon, May 6, 1884, Ulysses S. Grant entered the office of his Wall Street brokerage firm, a wealthy man. A few hours later,

On May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri. The son of a farmer, Truman couldn’t afford to go to college. He

On May 7, 1915, less than a year after World War I (1914-18) broke out across Europe, a German submarine torpedoed and sank the RMS

The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 was the deadliest flu epidemic in history, killing up to 50 million people worldwide. In the United States,

Ulysses S. Grant, a graduate of the American Military Academy at West Point in 1843, did not go there because he dreamed of being a