In the 1850s, political forces were splitting the...  ...l forces were splitting the US in the lead to the Civil War . Abolitionists were campaigning against slavery,...  ...he Act were disrupted by the social movements and civil rights discussions occurring in New England. An...

The 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Fifteenth Air...  ...er Group of the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force in World War II are better known now as the Tuskegee Airmen. A...  ...combat mission and 200 escort mission during the war , with more than 15,000 individual sorties, garner...  ...ering 850 awards. Their motivation...

Embed from Getty ImagesMonday, May 4 will be the...  ...y, May 4 will be the 50th anniversary of the anti- war demonstration on the campus of Kent State Univers...  ...Kent State shooting remains a watershed moment in American history. It sparked a nationwide student strike s...  ...berated throughout the final...

<p>One of the earliest scientific fa...  ...hough, according to the recent paper: the average American now seems to run more than a degree F lower.</...  ...anford University researchers looked at data from Civil War soldiers and veterans and two more recent cohorts......

Soon after the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Ha...  ...rom Japan before 1907 and by law could not become American citizens. The dragnet expanded over the next year...  ...net expanded over the next year, and thousands of American -born citizens were sent to facilities such as rac...  ...m. Two-thirds of the p...

Abraham Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 was not the...  ...e recorded some of the most lasting images of the Civil War and he photographed Lincoln’s second inaugu...  ...on’t worry. He’s virtually unknown in American photography. If five of his images did not a...

Mental Floss has an article about why we eat pumpk...  ...th and the South that developed leading up to the Civil War . “Thanksgiving was, above all, a New Englan...  ...elbaum put it in her book “Thanksgiving: An American Holiday, an ...

Machias Seal Island off the coast of Maine is the...  ...by Tall Barney Beal, who lived there to avoid the Civil War draft. Tall Barney bequeathed the island to the f...  ...osition, which is to claim the disputed island as American territory without making too much of a fuss....

The United States, while ostensibly welcoming immi...  ...mmigrants from -of all places- Canada. During the Civil War , shipments of cotton from the South ceased and Ne...  ...nd mills shut down. As business resumed after the war , nearly a million French-Canadian workers arriv...

<p>“Cleanliness is next to god...  ...ious terms.</p><blockquote>Before the Civil War , the authors explain, a kind of “cleanlines...  ...ional accessory, not a staple. But, by the 1930s, Americans placed soap second only to food as the most impor....