Category: History Knowledge

Blood remained fresh on the snow outside Boston Customs on the morning of March 6, 1770. A few hours earlier, rising tensions between British troops

The plague ravaged major cities and provincial towns in northern and central Italy from 1629 to 1631, killing over 45,000 people in Venice and wiping

The last known survivor of the last American slave ship died in 1940—75 years after the abolition of slavery. Her name was Matilda McCrear. When

When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated on March 4, 1933, the United States was entering the fourth year of the Great Depression, the worst economic

When the Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separate schools for whites and blacks were unconstitutional and inherently unequal, the slow and often violent dismantling

Throughout the millennia, people have developed quite irrational ideas about how infectious diseases such as the plague and cholera have spread. Some of these notions

1920 Presidential Election: Whipped by a burst of historic events over four heartbreaking years, the exhausted Americans longed to catch their collective breath as election

On April 26, 1986, the worst nuclear power plant accident in the world occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. Thirty-two

The Shroud of Turin is a 14-foot linen cloth with an image of a crucified man who has become a popular Catholic icon. For some,