The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you sp
The 1929 stock market crash saw 14 billion dollars vanish in a matter of hours — and with it, the Re
As the Civil War came to a close, the government set its sights once again on the future of the Unit
The United States won the The Mexican–American War in the 1840s, and with it vast new stretches of w
Andrew Jackson lost the 1824 presidential election to John Quincy Adams through what some called a “
In the earliest days of the United States, there was no such thing as an organized political party.
Named after one of the greatest U.S. presidents, the Lincoln Motor Company has become as ingrained i
We conclude our series on the American Civil Right Movement with an interview with a woman who was t
Seeking to build upon the gains of the early 1960s, Civil Rights activists pushed forward on a serie
As the Civil Rights movement entered the landmark years of 1963 and 1964, activists had faced many c
As the Civil Rights movement entered the Sixties, a new generation of activists took the fore. Frust
After the Brown V. Board of Education ruling, civil rights activists had legal standing to desegrega
In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal, on a “separate but equal” basis. B
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing the slave
In 1980, Jimmy Carter signed into law the The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, or AN
Alaska: big, open, frozen and wild. In 1867, the acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire was w
In 1914, America’s National Parks had a problem: no one was using them. And those few that were face
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the city of San Francisco was torn apart by
Put out to pasture, thinking his political career over, Theodore Roosevelt was atop a mountain when
Yellowstone was our nation’s first national park. Its strange, wondrous landscapes were perfect for
America's greatest National Parks are truly one of our country's greatest treasures. But many beauti
