Category: History

How Fascist

‘But the polls were right’. Soon after the election of President Trump, the media which had spent more than a year laughing at him realized they had to explain …

Awful doesn’t even begin to describe this.  Almost 1,000 years of history is gone, never to be recovered: The spire of Paris’s famous Notre Dame cathedral has collapsed after …

Doris Miller “was a Navy messman on the battleship USS West Virginia, who showed incredible courage under fire during the attack . He was the first African American to …

The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot (a.k.a. Massacre) was an event of great magnitude for black Americans, and yet the event isn’t well known by the American public. From the …

“In 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man, became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre.” …

Black History Month 2019 begins with the Google website honoring Sojourner Truth with a doodle. Here is an excerpt from the Biography.com entry about Sojourner Truth: Sojourner Truth (born …

When humans around the world encountered climate change 1,000 years ago, they found ways to adapt. As temperatures back then soared to record highs (the same as today’s high …

(Readers: I meant to post this yesterday, but forgot… better late than never!) Today we celebrate Independence Day, the day we stepped out on our own and formally declared …

Juneteenth is the celebration of the day when the last slaves in the USA were emancipated. From JUNETEENTH.com: “Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery …