Category: History Knowledge

The need for social distancing may have forced museums and historic sites around the world to close for the moment, but many have made their

The year 1917 was very important for the suffrage movement. Having lost the chance to defeat the reelection of President Woodrow Wilson, who had initially

In the 1950s, the polio virus terrified American families. Parents tried “social distancing” – effectively and out of fear. Polio was not part of the

In 1934, a doctor at a private boys’ school in Pennsylvania tried a unique method to ward off a potentially fatal measles epidemic. Dr. J.

  While scholars generally agree that Jesus was a true historical figure, the debate has long raged around the events and circumstances of his life

Each year, millions of Americans must accumulate their financial records and fill out forms – or pay professionals to do it for them – in

For millennia, a diagnosis of leprosy meant a life sentence of social isolation. People with the disease now known as Hansen’s disease – a bacterial

For almost 56 hours after the launch of the Apollo 13 mission on April 11, 1970, it appeared to be the smoothest flight in NASA’s

  The United States has never delayed a presidential election. But there was one case where some wondered if the country should do it: when