Three decades before the “War on Terror” and its orientation of “Islamic terrorism” as the principal threat to American security, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was its standing talisman. The color ...
Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death. By Michael J. Neufeld Several months after ...
Sonoma State Home for the Feebleminded Hospital, where sterilizations took place. Historical postcard, from the personal collection of Alex Wellerstein. In February 1930, Concepcion Ruiz, a ...
She made a name for herself by speaking out against fascism abroad and at home. Then the fight got personal. On the morning of August 25, 1934, the American journalist Dorothy Thompson was taking ...
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/citizen-hearst-william-randolph-hearst-and-mccarthyism/ Caption: Senator Joseph MCcarthy presents to fellow U.S ...
The roller coaster has its origins in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a simple slide that took thrillseekers down an icy ramp past a variety of colored lanterns. Catherine the Great gave this custom a ...
When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly the ...
Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction. Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming right out ...
A timeline of events leading up to and surrounding the Battle of Ong Thanh and the protests that broke out on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison in October of 1967. April 13: Terry ...
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, also known as Mohammad Reza Shah, the last Shah of Iran, courted a very close relationship with the United States and its leaders for almost three decades. The American Central ...
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old African ...
When Venustiano Carranza was president. 12,000 Americans crossed the border To hunt down and punish Pancho Villa for a “slip.” Poncho Villa (between 1908 and 1919, Library of Congress On March 9, 1916 ...
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