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Billy Graham: American Evangelist and Cultural Icon

By: Elvira Nieto

Kenny Washington Makes NFL History: Washington First African-American in National Football League

By: Kathy Kerr

Best Little-Known or Obscure November Holidays: Strange, Wierd and Unique Holidays, Weeks and Monthly Events

By: Feature Writer Robin Montanye

The Assassination of William McKinley: The Third U.S. President is Murdered in 36 Years

By: Walter Coffey

How Did Americans Survive the Great Depression? People’s Struggle for Survival During the Depression Era

By: Iulia Filip

FDR's Urban Paternalism: Socialistic Empathy or Capitalistic Ignorance?

By: Ron Goodwin

The Life of Warren G Harding: The 29th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

The Lord is My Sheppard: The Indomitable Faith of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By: Ron Goodwin

Prophetic Influences: Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Church, and Social Activism

By: Ron Goodwin

Who Was General George Marshall? America's Model Soldier-Statesman in War and Uneasy Peace

By: David Hornestay

FDR's New Deal Based on Fascism? Influence of Benito Mussolini on Roosevelt

By: Kathy Kerr

The West Virginia Coal Mine Wars: United Mine Workers Take On the Industrial Revolution

By: Stephen Smoot

The Life of Woodrow Wilson: The 28th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society: LBJ's Effort to Continue Kennedy's Idealism and Roosevelt's New Deal

By: Tracey Carter

Defining The Sixties in America: American History in the 1960s - Groups, Organizations, and Movements

By: Tracey Carter

The Life of William Howard Taft: The 27th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

The Kennedy Assassination Limousine: Infamously Stuck In Time, But Where Is It Now?

By: Hari Navarro

About the Tropicana Hotel: A Basic History of the Famed Las Vegas Resort

By: William Swan

Teapot Dome Becomes a Major Scandal: Corruption Taints the Harding Administration

By: Walter Coffey

About the MGM Grand Hotel: Fun Facts and History of the Famous Las Vegas Hotel

By: William Swan

What Caused the Great Depression? Looking Back on One of the Grimmest Periods in US History

By: Iulia Filip

The Life of Theodore Roosevelt: The 26th President of United States

By: Terry Long

Italian-Americans Imprisoned: The Internment of Italian-Americans during World War II

By: Kathy Kerr

Albert Einstein at a Black University, 1946: Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Spoke at Lincoln University

By: Linda N. Riggins

President Hoover Worsens the Great Depression: Government Intervention Turns Economic Recession Into Catastrophe

By: Walter Coffey

Ezra Pound and Mussolini in Fascist Italy: The Author of the Cantos and His Role in Fascism During II World War

By: Alessandro Mastrorocco

The Man Who Drove the Mules for MLK Jr. Albert Turner Helped Launch the Voting Rights Movement

By: Gene Owens

Did America Win the Cold War? Are Reagan's Claims to Ending US-USSR Hostilities Justified

By: Dawn Ouedraogo

President Reagan - Cold War Policy: American Attitude Toward Communism and the Soviet Threat

By: Dawn Ouedraogo

U.S. Presidents And Health Care Reform: The History Of Public Health Politics In America

By: Feature Writer Robert McRoberts

Tribune Tower Rocks: Chicago Landmark Façade Displays Rocks, Stones and Artifacts

By: Joe Nowak

Truman Committee of World War II: The Senate Investigation of the National Defense Program

By: William L. Wunder

The Life of William McKinley: The 25th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

New York's Narrowest House for Sale: Greenwich Village Property Priced at $2.7 Million

By: Feature Writer Rupert Taylor

The Nixon-Kennedy Health Care Plan: How Richard Nixon and Edward Kennedy Worked For American Health Care

By: Feature Writer Robert McRoberts

The Life of Benjamin Harrison: The 23rd President of the United States

By: Terry Long

The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946: Forerunner to the Freedom of Information Act 1966

By: Feature Writer Jeffrey Willett

The Naming of the Verazzano-Narrows Bridge: John N. LaCorte Honors the Italian Explorer

By: Janice Therese Mancuso

The Life of Grover Cleveland: The 22nd and 24th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

The Bitter Peace of the Great War: Woodrow Wilson's Idealism Sets the Stage for Future Conflict

By: Walter Coffey

Who Was Senator Joe McCarthy? How McCarthyism Got Its Bad Name

By: David Hornestay

The Life of Chester A Arthur: The 21st President of the United States

By: Terry Long

Wilma Mankiller – Chief of the Cherokees: First Woman to Lead the Tribe

By: Allene Reynolds

The LBJ Influence: The Great Society and Civil Rights

By: Ron Goodwin

Famous Short Speeches: Short Famous Speeches By Americans In Times of Strife

By: Feature Writer Chad Criswell

W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagra Movement: From the Niagara Movement to the Montgomery Improvement Association

By: Ron Goodwin

Who Has Been to the Moon? Men Who've Walked the Moon and Refuting Moon Hoax Theories

By: Feature Writer Megan Jungwi

Black Soldiers and Jim Crow: Fighting for Respect in the Age of Racist Segregation

By: Ron Goodwin

The Flight of Apollo 11: The 40th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing

By: Terry Long

The Life of James Garfield: The 20th President of the United States

By: Terry Long

Rise of Consumerism and Mass Culture in the 1920: A Standardized Culture, Mass Entertainment and Mass Consumption

By: Iulia Filip

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

By: David McNeill

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

By: Terry Long

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

By: Feature Writer Howard Bryan Bonham

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

By: Ron Goodwin

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: John K. Davis

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Gene Owens

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

By: Melanie Benfield

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: David Hornestay

Progressive Legislation from 1913 - 1914: The Wilson Administration

By: Heather Strong

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

By: Feature Writer Francine Brokaw

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Christine Musser

Racial Healing in Mississippi: Philadelphia Elects a Black Mayor

By: Gene Owens

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

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

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

By: Feature Writer Tongkeh Joseph Fowale

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

By: Sara McCleary

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

By: David Hornestay

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

By: David Schauer

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

By: Marie Brannon

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

By: Marie Brannon

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

By: Paul Andrews

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: David McNeill

Closing Alcatraz: The Rock Shuts Down As A Prison

By: Jim Rada

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

By: David McNeill

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

By: David Hornestay

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

By: Ashley Waggoner

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

By: Ashley Waggoner

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

By: David Hornestay

Celebrating Statehood: Hawaii Becomes the 50th State

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: David Hornestay

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

By: William L. Wunder

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

By: Sandra Gardner

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

By: David Hornestay

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

By: Jared Plotkin

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Ronnie Arnold

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

By: Ronnie Arnold

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

By: William L. Wunder

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Jim Rada

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

By: Ronnie Arnold

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

By: William L. Wunder

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