Just three decades after the United States broke free from Britain with the American Revolution, the two nations engaged in battle again in the War of 1812. But this time, the combatants most at stake were probably a third group: the Amerindians. .
By the time the war broke out, the fledgling American nation had grown aggressively westward, bringing the native peoples and their ancestral lands under relentless attack. Seeking military allies to help protect their territory, most Native Americans chose to fight alongside the British. Indian warriors, many of whom rallied around the powerful and charismatic Chief Tecumseh, played a crucial role in many battles.
Tuskegee aviators are best known for proving during World War II that black men can be elite fighter pilots. Less well known is the instrumental role these pilots, navigators and bombers played during the war in the fight against segregation through nonviolent direct action. Their tactics would become the cornerstone of the civil rights movement…
Cleveland Browns quarterback Otto Graham dominated professional football ahead of the Super Bowl. From 1946 to 1955, “Automatic Otto” led the Browns to 10 straight championship games, a feat no other player in the sport can match. Starting every Browns game during that span, Graham has won seven titles, an all-time high for a professional…
After Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860, 11 southern states separated from the Union. Slavery and state rights had been at the center of the election, and Lincoln vowed during his campaign not to restrict slavery where it already existed, but to limit its expansion to Western territories. A series of concessions…
On July 27, 1974, the House Judiciary Committee recommended that the 37th US President, Richard M. Nixon, be dismissed and removed from office. The impeachment proceeding resulted from a series of political scandals involving the Nixon administration, known collectively as Watergate. READ MORE: How Many US Presidents Have Been Arraigned? The Watergate scandal first emerged…
When the bubonic plague hit Honolulu and San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century, officials in those cities quickly did what they had been doing for decades: they vilified residents of Chinese descent. Since the mid-1800s, Asian communities in the United States have been among the scapegoats of public health crises, underscoring stereotypes,…
La reine Elizabeth II est une institution telle qu’il est facile d’oublier qu’elle n’était pas du tout censée être devenue reine. Née en 1926, Elizabeth était la fille du deuxième fils du roi George V et avait peu d’espoir de succéder au trône jusqu’à ce que son oncle, le roi Édouard VIII, abdique en 1936…
