Tag: history

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 …

After the end of the American Revolution, a set of problem worried the new government. High on that list was the question of how to pay back the war …

Russians admit they destroyed remains of Hitler, Eva Braun, and the Goebbels family. The bodies were destroyed in 1970 on the orders of KGB head Yuri Andropov.

The recent consensus has been that the earliest humans in North America were the Clovis people, roughly 13,000 years ago. Newly discovered fecal fossils in Oregon indicate people were …

When you're the nation's leading Museum of Natural History, you don't expect to be perfect - but shouldn't you be smarter than a 5th grader? Apparently NOT, since an …

We might do well to remember the first Thanksgiving at the Plymouth Colony was only possible because they abandoned the failed socialist model for a community and adopted property …

History Texts Take Up Clinton Impeachment - WaPo...