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American History Tellers

The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you sp

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May 5, 1862. Following the French invasion of Mexico, Mexican soldiers succeed in defending the town

On November 4th, 1979, Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran intending to stage a shor

Lamont Jones leaves Dauphin County Prison for the last time, a free man ready to move on with his li

In his final year in office, President Jimmy Carter was forced to navigate crisis after crisis, as A

April 21, 1934. The Daily Mail publishes an alleged photo of the Loch Ness Monster, sparking an inte

In 1979, after two years in office, President Jimmy Carter faced a series of crushing challenges: a

When Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, the media called it a senseless cr

In 1976, as America struggled to recover from the twin traumas of the Watergate scandal and the war

April 7, 1739. In York, England, the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin is hanged for stealing horses.

As America entered World War I, the suffrage movement split into a two-pronged attack. Alice Paul an

Kat Torres has the insta-perfect life. She is rich, gorgeous and not ashamed to share it. Her posts

In March 1913, thousands of suffrage activists converged on Washington, D.C. for a new form of prote

March 24, 1603. After a reign of 44 years, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, bringing the Tudor dyn

As the 20th century dawned, a new generation of women rose to take control of the suffrage cause. Th

On Election Day 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a polling place in Rochester, New York and boldly

Monica Lewinsky has been a major reference in pop culture since she was 24 years old when a scandal

March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call in history,

On July 19th, 1848, 300 female and male delegates gathered in a church in Seneca Falls, New York for

Between 1870 and 1899, only twelve Black cadets were admitted to the US military academy at West Poi

You know those messages that you get all the time, the ones that pop up out of nowhere? They could b