Category: History Knowledge

When Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on October 4, 1953, the United States was on the

On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, a naval base located in the American territory of Hawaii. The attack killed

Super Mario, one of the most iconic characters in video game history, made his inauspicious debut in 1981. He wasn’t much – just a handful

Just over three years after Neil Armstrong took mankind’s first steps on the moon, Apollo 17 astronauts left the last footprints on the lunar surface

Over the decades, the 1980s had more than its fair share of iconic technology, from walkmans to VCRs to pagers. Many of the innovative Reagan-era

By 1987, the AIDS epidemic had reached grim proportions. The disease had killed nearly 60,000 people worldwide and more than 40,000 were HIV-positive in the

An escaped slave man named Peter showing his scarred back during a medical examination in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863. Library of Congress By the time

Despite the horrors of slavery, the decision to flee was not easy. Escaping often involved leaving family behind and heading into the complete unknown, where

They called him “Moses” for leading the slaves of the South to freedom in the North. But Harriet Tubman fought the institution of slavery far