It was on this day in history , May 22, 1856, that an assault took place on the... ...6, that an assault took place on the floor of the US Senate. The spark, as you might have guessed, was... ...as much quickness as was possible for any man to use a cane on another whom he was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/05/22/Violence-in-the-US-Senate/You may have never heard about the 1939 Nazi rally... ...ause it's a "scary and embarrassing" part of U.S. history . Filmmaker Marshall Curry hadn't heard about it e... ...g that struck me was the way these American Nazis used the symbols of America to sell an ideology that a... ...same throughout the ages. T...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/14/A-Night-at-the-Garden/March 10 is known as Three Flags Day in St. Louis,... ...he Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which expanded the US into what later became all or part of 15 states....
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/11/The-Day-St-Louis-Went-From-Spanish-to-French-to-American-in-Just-24-Hours/Oregon Trail was designed as an educational kids&r... ...ch couldn’t have been all that fun, to give us the rest of the story. A list of resources for fu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/04/Oregon-Trail-for-Adults/How did Harriet Tubman lead so many slave... ...ers would inevitably attract more attention, she usually conducted runaways in groups of 12 to 15—th... ...long the Combahee River in South Carolina. Tubman used an elaborate network of spies among the slave po... ...rdquo; in railroad lingo.DON&r...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/08/02/The-Perfect-Record-19-0/The Battle of Gettysburg took place 150 years ago, and is considered by many to be the turning point of the Civil War. By marrying the magic of cartography and technology, we can put ourselves in the places of General Ge...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/03/The-Battle-of-Gettysburg-Interactive-Map/The following is an article from Uncle John's 24-K... ...om the American Revolution that you remember from history class: The Stamp Act? Eleven years earlier. The B... ...ence. Adams was also correct in that the vote was usually considered the significant event, and the post-vo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/01/Born-on-the-2nd-of-July/In Boston in 1774, tensions were building up that... ...re also located. One of these fires may have been used to heat the stiff and sludgy pine tar (a distilla... ...the crusades; it was also applied to the effigies used during Pope Night; several Boston loyalists befor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/03/The-Worst-Parade-to-Ever-Hit-the-Streets-of-Boston/The Tuskegee Institute began to keep statistics on repotted lynchings in the United States under the direction of Booker T. Washington (between 1881 and 1915), and continued through 1961.In 1959, Tuskegee defined its par...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/11/Lynching-Map-1900-1931/Writer Tony Horwitz visited the Quayle Vice Presid... ...d as his running mate. The VP museum, which once used the advertising motto “Second to One,&rdquo...
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