Jul 1, 2009

John Harvey Kellogg and the Cereal Revolution: How Food Science and National Marketing Changed Breakfast

By: David McNeill

Jun 30, 2009

The Life of Rutherford B Hayes: The 19th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

Jun 24, 2009

New London School Disaster Worst Ever in US: 1937 Texas Gas Explosion Wiped Out Next Generation in Boom Town

By: Howard Bryan Bonham

Jun 22, 2009

Federal Subsidies and Urban Transportation: The Development of the Auto-Nation

By: Ron Goodwin

Jun 21, 2009

The Kitty Genovese Murder: Murder Witnessed By 38 People Who Ignored Her Scream For Help

By: Jim Rada

Jun 20, 2009

Automotive Pioneer Alice Ramsey: The First Woman to Drive Across the United States

By: John K. Davis

Jun 15, 2009

The 1933 Long Beach Earthquake: Structural Damages Lead to Earthquake-Resistant Schools

By: Jim Rada

Jun 14, 2009

How American History was Taught and Written: Pre Vietnam Era Texts Perpetuated Stereotypes and Omitted Facts

By: Michael Streich

Jun 12, 2009

The Wizard of Oz as Allegory and Fairy Tale: Deconstructing a Classic American Book Written for Children

By: Michael Streich

Jun 7, 2009

U.S. Goes Off the Gold Standard: Too Much Government Spending Forces Fiscal Change

By: Jim Rada

Jun 3, 2009

Robert Quillen – Mark Twain or a Mencken? Mill-Town Philosopher Reflects Southern Attitudes Between the Warss

By: Gene Owens

Jun 2, 2009

World War II in the Pacific: U.S. Army Soldier Remembers Life in New Guinea & the Philippines

By: Melanie Benfield

May 31, 2009

New York City Subway System Breaks Ground: Rapid transit system helped people easily commute through the city

By: Jim Rada

May 28, 2009

Mr. Justice Benjamin Cardozo: Was He the First Hispanic on the Supreme Court?

By: David Hornestay

May 27, 2009

Progressive Legislation from 1913 - 1914: The Wilson Administration

By: Heather Strong

May 25, 2009

A Brief History of Air Force One: The Flying White House

By: Francine Brokaw

May 24, 2009

1925 Killer Tornado in the Midwest: Demolishes West Frankfort, Murphybsoro, Carbondale in Illinois

By: Jim Rada

May 22, 2009

Miners Lose Lives: Knox Coal Mine Disaster Reveals Corruption in PA's Wyoming Valley

By: Christine Musser

May 22, 2009

Racial Healing in Mississippi: Philadelphia Elects a Black Mayor

By: Gene Owens

May 20, 2009

U.S and the Search for World Peace After 1918: Isolationism, Interventionism and World War II

By: Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

May 18, 2009

Warren G. Harding: A Dark Horse Candidate with a Dubious and Lackluster Past

By: Michael Streich

May 15, 2009

The Global Financial Crisis in Perspective: The Great Depression and Global Credit Crisis, Similarities

By: Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

May 12, 2009

Nixon in China: The President's 1972 Trip to the People's Republic of China

By: Sara McCleary

May 12, 2009

Eisenhower as Supreme Commander: The Skills That Led to Victory in Europe

By: David Hornestay

May 11, 2009

The Vietnam Women's Memorial: A Patriotic Rememberance of Those Who Served

By: David Schauer

May 11, 2009

Early Years of Arabia Shrine Temple in Houston: Houston Shriners Started in 1914 at Masonic Temple on Main Street

By: Marie Brannon

May 11, 2009

Arabia Temple in Houston – History 1941-1965: Houston Shriners From WWII Until Their Golden Anniversary

By: Marie Brannon

May 8, 2009

Effects of CIA Mission in Afghanistan, 1979-1992: The Consequences of War on Regional and Global Actors

By: Paul Andrews

May 1, 2009

Bruno Hauptman Executed: Electrocuted for Killing Charles Lindbergh’s Son

By: Jim Rada

Apr 27, 2009

Father Charles Coughlin and the New Deal: Anti-Semitism from the Golden Hour of the Little Flower

By: Michael Streich

Apr 26, 2009

A Maneuverable Spacecraft: Grissom and Young fly Molly Brown in space

By: Jim Rada

Apr 15, 2009

The Administration of President Jimmy Carter: Foreign and Domestic Setbacks Hurt Popular Support

By: Michael Streich

Apr 15, 2009

BASE Jumping in Yosemite National Park: How the most Extreme Sport became forbidden in the park

By: David McNeill

Apr 9, 2009

The Presidential Election of 1964: Lyndon Johnson Defeats Barry Goldwater in a Landslide Victory

By: Michael Streich

Apr 9, 2009

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution August 1964: Congress Votes to Give President Johnson a Blank Check to Wage War

By: Michael Streich

Apr 2, 2009

Closing Alcatraz: The Rock Shuts Down As A Prison

By: Jim Rada

Apr 1, 2009

Consequences of 1950s White Flight: Post War Suburbs Reflected Positive and Negative Experiences

By: Michael Streich

Mar 30, 2009

The Building of the Appalachian Trail: How Benton MacKaye and Myron Avery Built the Great American Trail

By: David McNeill

Mar 27, 2009

MacArthur in Korea: The Reverses, the Triumph, and the Fall

By: David Hornestay

Mar 25, 2009

The States' Rights Party in the 1948 Election: Dixiecrats Challenge Liberal Democratic Desegregation Policies

By: Michael Streich

Mar 19, 2009

What Became of the Ford Children? The Adult Lives of Michael, Jack, Steven, and Susan

By: Ashley Breanne

Mar 19, 2009

Children's Heroes of the 1950s and Early 1960s: Great Men and Famous Deeds in Childcraft's 1961 Primer

By: Michael Streich

Mar 17, 2009

The Cold War 1946 - 1957: The First Years of American-Soviet Relations Define the Threat

By: Michael Streich

Mar 16, 2009

Jimmy Carter's Best Campaign Strategist: How Rosalynn Carter Helped Her Husband Win the 1976 Election

By: Ashley Breanne

Mar 13, 2009

Civil Rights and Post War American Ideals: Social and Political Changes Supported an End to Segregation

By: Michael Streich

Mar 13, 2009

The First TV Political Conventions: Eisenhower and Stevenson Get the Nod in 1952

By: David Hornestay

Mar 12, 2009

Lend Lease and Franklin Roosevelt: Congressional Delegation and Executive Orders Prepared for War

By: Michael Streich

Mar 12, 2009

Celebrating Statehood: Hawaii Becomes the 50th State

By: Jim Rada

Mar 12, 2009

Hawaii Becomes the 50th State: The Issues Debated About Allowed the Islands Into the Union

By: Jim Rada

Mar 9, 2009

MacArthur's Return to the Philippines: A Dramatic High Point of World War II

By: David Hornestay

Mar 6, 2009

Dams and Locks of the Upper Mississippi River: New Deal Work Relief and the Nine Foot Channel Project

By: William L. Wunder

Mar 5, 2009

Pearl Harbor and 9/11 Attacks Compared: American Responses to Homeland Aggressions by Foreign Powers

By: Michael Streich

Mar 5, 2009

Isolationism in the 1920s and 1930s: United States Foreign Policy from Coolidge to FDR

By: Michael Streich

Mar 5, 2009

Coming of the Great Depression in 1929: Republican and Democratic Responses Contrasted

By: Michael Streich

Mar 4, 2009

The Great Depression and the Wizard of Oz: Dorothy's Sojourn in a Fantasy Land Provides Hope and Promise

By: Michael Streich

Mar 1, 2009

Excelsior Springs Old Siloam Heals: A Small Town In Missouri Became Known As America's Haven Of Health

By: Sandra Gardner

Feb 27, 2009

From Victory to Cold War: The World War II Allies Become Bitter Enemies

By: David Hornestay

Feb 26, 2009

Roaring Twenties Feminism: Social and Cultural Changes Open Doors for American Women

By: Michael Streich

Feb 24, 2009

Presidential Campaign Slogans: Why Bad Slogans Make for Bad Presidents - Like John Tyler

By: Jared Plotkin

Feb 23, 2009

How the Game of Life Taught Capitalism: Board Games of the 1950s and Early 1960s and the American Dream

By: Michael Streich

Feb 17, 2009

The Journey of Einstein's Brain: After Albert's Death, His Brain Traveled the Country

By: Jim Rada

Feb 13, 2009

The Panama Canal and United States Interests: Linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Was a Long Term US Goal

By: Michael Streich

Feb 11, 2009

Huey Long's Weekly Newspaper: Kingfish Countered Coverage of Dailies with His Own Weekly

By: Ronnie Arnold

Feb 10, 2009

Roosevelt's Second Term 1905 - 1909: The Square Deal and Progressive Legislation Under TR

By: Michael Streich

Feb 9, 2009

Progressivism and Teddy Roosevelt: TR's First Term in Office Produces Significant Victories

By: Michael Streich

Feb 9, 2009

New Deal Opposition: Criticism of FDR's Recovery Program in the 1930s

By: Michael Streich

Feb 8, 2009

Emmett Till: Murder in Mississippi: 14-Year Old's Death Gave Rise to Civil Rights Movement

By: Ronnie Arnold

Feb 7, 2009

The Reagan Revolution and the Election of 1980: The Failures of Jimmy Carter Led to Republican Victory

By: Michael Streich

Feb 6, 2009

Anti Imperialist League and US Foreign Policy: Opposition to Philippine Annexation and the Platt Amendment

By: Michael Streich

Feb 6, 2009

The Second New Deal: Economic Security Legislation in the Great Depression

By: William L. Wunder

Feb 5, 2009

Voter Participation in America 1876-1920: Decreasing Percentages Highlight a Lack of Major Issues

By: Michael Streich

Feb 3, 2009

Causes of the Spanish American War: Yellow Journalism, Imperialism, and the USS Maine Bring About War

By: Michael Streich

Feb 3, 2009

Spanish Flu in Allegany County, Maryland: When an Avian-Flu-Like Epidemic Killed Hundreds in One Month

By: Jim Rada

Feb 3, 2009

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: What the Avian Flu Could Become

By: Jim Rada

Feb 1, 2009

Ross Barnett: A Life Obscured by the Race Issue: Mississippi Governor's Career Ignored by Historians

By: Ronnie Arnold

Jan 30, 2009

The Adamson Eight-Hour Act of 1916: Congressional Action Designed to Avert a National Railroad Strike

By: Michael Streich

Jan 30, 2009

The First New Deal: NRA, AAA, TVA, and Economic Planning in the Great Depression

By: William L. Wunder

Jan 26, 2009

Louisiana's 24-mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway: Lake Bridge Has Changed the Face and Fate of the New Orleans Area

By: Carroll Trosclair

Jan 25, 2009

Huey Long's Great Kidnapping Caper: Event Threatened Long's Election to U.S. Senate

By: Ronnie Arnold

Jan 25, 2009

Recent History of American Youth: From political idealism to MTV

By: Kaila Krayewski

Jan 24, 2009

Child Birth and Abortion in Gilded Age Cities: Social Purity in White Middle Class Families Limits Family Size

By: Michael Streich

Jan 23, 2009

Immigrants and the Growth of Gilded Age Cities: Changes in American Urban Centers after the Civil War

By: Michael Streich

Jan 19, 2009

Sweat v Painter: Thurgood Marshall and the fight against Jim Crow

By: Ron Goodwin

Jan 19, 2009

Urban Renewal and Highway Legislations: The Deconstruction of America’s Urban Core

By: Ron Goodwin

Jan 19, 2009

Booker T. Washington and Jim Crow: Using the Power of Self-Help in the Fight Against Racism

By: Ron Goodwin

Jan 18, 2009

Korean War, Harry Truman, and Communism: Proving the Strength of Containment While Building Political Appeal

By: Michael Streich

Jan 18, 2009

Soul on Ice: The Window into the eyes of the Discontented

By: Ron Goodwin

Jan 18, 2009

Truman's Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb: Causes and Effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945

By: Michael Streich

Jan 14, 2009

The New Freedom: The Progressive Program of President Woodrow Wilson

By: William L. Wunder

Jan 12, 2009

Doolittle Raid, Coral Sea, and Midway Island: Three 1942 Military Successes Turning the Tide Against Japan

By: Michael Streich

Jan 11, 2009

Western Maryland Floods of 1924: Cumberland Gets Two Floods in One Year

By: Jim Rada

Jan 10, 2009

American Imperialism in the 1890s: Motivations and Criticisms of US Expansionism by War and Annexation

By: Michael Streich

Jan 9, 2009

Amending the United States Constitution: Expanding American Freedoms Through Constitutional Changes

By: Michael Streich

Jan 6, 2009

Spending Money To Make Money: The Creators of Today's Deficit Spending By Design

By: Joseph McGowan

Jan 4, 2009

Martin Luther King: The Philosophy of Nonviolent Resistance

By: Deanna Proach

Jan 2, 2009

The Green Berets and Vietnam Era Movies: War Movies With Political Perspectives on America's Longest Conflict

By: Michael Streich

Dec 27, 2008

New Year's Retrospective: 100 Years Ago: 1909 Events: Benny Goodman and Burl Ives Were Born

By: Rosemary E. Bachelor

Dec 22, 2008

Cold War Families and Domestic Containment: Post War American Middle Class Suburban Experiences

By: Michael Streich

Dec 19, 2008

Camp Flintstone Brought the War to Maryland: Green Ridge State Forest was the Site of a POW Camp

By: Jim Rada

Dec 17, 2008

The Georges Creek Coal Mining War: 1920's Effort to Unionize Coal Mines Led to Violence

By: Jim Rada

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