Latest Contributing Articles
Nov 2, 2009
Billy Graham: American Evangelist and Cultural Icon
By: Elvira Nieto
Nov 1, 2009
Kenny Washington Makes NFL History: Washington First African-American in National Football League
By: Kathy Kerr
Nov 1, 2009
Best Little-Known or Obscure November Holidays: Strange, Wierd and Unique Holidays, Weeks and Monthly Events
By: Robin Montanye
Oct 27, 2009
The Assassination of William McKinley: The Third U.S. President is Murdered in 36 Years
By: Walter Coffey
Oct 25, 2009
How Did Americans Survive the Great Depression? People’s Struggle for Survival During the Depression Era
By: Iulia Filip
Oct 20, 2009
FDR's Urban Paternalism: Socialistic Empathy or Capitalistic Ignorance?
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 20, 2009
The Life of Warren G Harding: The 29th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Oct 20, 2009
The Lord is My Sheppard: The Indomitable Faith of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 20, 2009
Prophetic Influences: Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Church, and Social Activism
By: Ron Goodwin
Oct 16, 2009
Who Was General George Marshall? America's Model Soldier-Statesman in War and Uneasy Peace
By: David Hornestay
Oct 11, 2009
FDR's New Deal Based on Fascism? Influence of Benito Mussolini on Roosevelt
By: Kathy Kerr
Oct 10, 2009
The West Virginia Coal Mine Wars: United Mine Workers Take On the Industrial Revolution
By: Stephen Smoot
Oct 8, 2009
The Life of Woodrow Wilson: The 28th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Oct 3, 2009
Lyndon Johnson's Great Society: LBJ's Effort to Continue Kennedy's Idealism and Roosevelt's New Deal
By: Tracey Carter
Sep 30, 2009
Defining The Sixties in America: American History in the 1960s - Groups, Organizations, and Movements
By: Tracey Carter
Sep 30, 2009
The Life of William Howard Taft: The 27th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Sep 29, 2009
The Kennedy Assassination Limousine: Infamously Stuck In Time, But Where Is It Now?
By: Hari Navarro
Sep 28, 2009
About the Tropicana Hotel: A Basic History of the Famed Las Vegas Resort
By: William Swan
Sep 28, 2009
Teapot Dome Becomes a Major Scandal: Corruption Taints the Harding Administration
By: Walter Coffey
Sep 24, 2009
About the MGM Grand Hotel: Fun Facts and History of the Famous Las Vegas Hotel
By: William Swan
Sep 24, 2009
What Caused the Great Depression? Looking Back on One of the Grimmest Periods in US History
By: Iulia Filip
Sep 22, 2009
The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: The 26th President of United States
By: Terry Long
Sep 20, 2009
Italian-Americans Imprisoned: The Internment of Italian-Americans during World War II
By: Kathy Kerr
Sep 19, 2009
Albert Einstein at a Black University, 1946: Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Spoke at Lincoln University
By: Linda N. Riggins
Sep 19, 2009
President Hoover Worsens the Great Depression: Government Intervention Turns Economic Recession Into Catastrophe
By: Walter Coffey
Sep 18, 2009
Ezra Pound and Mussolini in Fascist Italy: The Author of the Cantos and His Role in Fascism During II World War
By: Alessandro Mastrorocco
Sep 12, 2009
The Man Who Drove the Mules for MLK Jr. Albert Turner Helped Launch the Voting Rights Movement
By: Gene Owens
Sep 11, 2009
Did America Win the Cold War? Are Reagan's Claims to Ending US-USSR Hostilities Justified
By: Dawn Ouedraogo
Sep 11, 2009
President Reagan - Cold War Policy: American Attitude Toward Communism and the Soviet Threat
By: Dawn Ouedraogo
Sep 10, 2009
U.S. Presidents And Health Care Reform: The History Of Public Health Politics In America
By: Robert McRoberts
Sep 8, 2009
Tribune Tower Rocks: Chicago Landmark Façade Displays Rocks, Stones and Artifacts
By: Joe Nowak
Sep 4, 2009
Truman Committee of World War II: The Senate Investigation of the National Defense Program
By: William L. Wunder
Sep 4, 2009
The Life of William McKinley: The 25th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Aug 27, 2009
New York's Narrowest House for Sale: Greenwich Village Property Priced at $2.7 Million
By: Rupert Taylor
Aug 27, 2009
The Nixon-Kennedy Health Care Plan: How Richard Nixon and Edward Kennedy Worked For American Health Care
By: Robert McRoberts
Aug 25, 2009
The Life of Benjamin Harrison: The 23rd President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Aug 22, 2009
The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946: Forerunner to the Freedom of Information Act 1966
By: Jeffrey Willett
Aug 21, 2009
The Naming of the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge: John N. LaCorte Honors the Italian Explorer
By: Janice Therese Mancuso
Aug 19, 2009
The Life of Grover Cleveland: The 22nd and 24th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Aug 18, 2009
The Bitter Peace of the Great War: Woodrow Wilson's Idealism Sets the Stage for Future Conflict
By: Walter Coffey
Aug 13, 2009
Who Was Senator Joe McCarthy? How McCarthyism Got Its Bad Name
By: David Hornestay
Aug 8, 2009
The Life of Chester A Arthur: The 21st President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Aug 6, 2009
Wilma Mankiller – Chief of the Cherokees: First Woman to Lead the Tribe
By: Allene Reynolds
Jul 18, 2009
The LBJ Influence: The Great Society and Civil Rights
By: Ron Goodwin
Jul 17, 2009
Famous Short Speeches: Short Famous Speeches By Americans In Times of Strife
By: Chad Criswell
Jul 17, 2009
W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagra Movement: From the Niagara Movement to the Montgomery Improvement Association
By: Ron Goodwin
Jul 17, 2009
Who Has Been to the Moon? Men Who've Walked the Moon and Refuting Moon Hoax Theories
By: Megan Jungwi
Jul 17, 2009
Black Soldiers and Jim Crow: Fighting for Respect in the Age of Racist Segregation
By: Ron Goodwin
Jul 14, 2009
The Flight of Apollo 11: The 40th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing
By: Terry Long
Jul 13, 2009
The Life of James Garfield: The 20th President of the United States
By: Terry Long
Jul 3, 2009
Rise of Consumerism and Mass Culture in the 1920: A Standardized Culture, Mass Entertainment and Mass Consumption
By: Iulia Filip
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 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 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 26, 2009
A Maneuverable Spacecraft: Grissom and Young fly Molly Brown in space
By: Jim Rada
Apr 15, 2009
BASE Jumping in Yosemite National Park: How the most Extreme Sport became forbidden in the park
By: David McNeill
Apr 2, 2009
Closing Alcatraz: The Rock Shuts Down As A Prison
By: Jim Rada
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 19, 2009
What Became of the Ford Children? The Adult Lives of Michael, Jack, Steven, and Susan
By: Ashley Waggoner
Mar 16, 2009
Jimmy Carter's Best Campaign Strategist: How Rosalynn Carter Helped Her Husband Win the 1976 Election
By: Ashley Waggoner
Mar 13, 2009
The First TV Political Conventions: Eisenhower and Stevenson Get the Nod in 1952
By: David Hornestay
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 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 24, 2009
Presidential Campaign Slogans: Why Bad Slogans Make for Bad Presidents - Like John Tyler
By: Jared Plotkin
Feb 17, 2009
The Journey of Einstein's Brain: After Albert's Death, His Brain Traveled the Country
By: Jim Rada
Feb 11, 2009
Huey Long's Weekly Newspaper: Kingfish Countered Coverage of Dailies with His Own Weekly
By: Ronnie Arnold
Feb 8, 2009
Emmett Till: Murder in Mississippi: 14-Year Old's Death Gave Rise to Civil Rights Movement
By: Ronnie Arnold
Feb 6, 2009
The Second New Deal: Economic Security Legislation in the Great Depression
By: William L. Wunder
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 First New Deal: NRA, AAA, TVA, and Economic Planning in the Great Depression
By: William L. Wunder
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