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Herbert Hoover was sworn in as the President of the United States on March 4, 1928
June 6 marked the 76th Anniversary of the start of D-Day and Operation Overlord. On this special occasion, we have a very special guest today on this blog.
James M. "Jim" McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University.
In 2009, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama became the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Since the day she set foot in the White House, she became a beacon of hope for women of color all over America.
Many look back on the Civil War and remember all the men who died fighting for the Union and the Confederacy, but not many remember the vital role women played in the war
For the last few weeks, the California wildfires have been all over the news. The quotes above are just a few of the recent headlines.
People from across the world are familiar with Barack Obama, who served as the 44th president from 2008-2016 and was the first black male to be elected as president.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a mass civil rights protest against Montgomery, Alabama’s segregated bus system, during which civil activists and African Americans refused to ride city buses for 381 days.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed office at a time when the United States was suffering the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, the Great Depression.
Swimming faces a serious diversity issue in the United States, both as a recreational pastime and as a competitive sport.
magine a party that lasts for nine years. Seems quite impossible, right? The roaring 20s was a period from 1920 to 1929, where everyone was care-free, prospering, and happy.
Americans watched with great concern as what they initially thought to be a nationalist revolution slowly turned into a communist one, just ninety miles from their borders.
if not for the Civil War which helped in abolishing slavery, would the persistence of slavery had made the US economy richer than it is now?
The Lavender Scare: a panic that captivated the United States during the Cold War and at the height of the Second Red Scare.
At the heart of Mendez v. Westminster was Sylvia Mendez of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, born in 1936 in Santa Ana, California.
Despite the Black Panther Party’s work on uplifting poor communities through its popular national food programs, its efforts remain largely unsung all because of false vilification by the media.