On March 1, 1960, Francis Gary Powers departed from a U.S. airbase in Pakistan in a U-2 Spy Plane. His mission was to fly over
It is the year 241 BCE in Carthage and the six-year-old Hannibal Barca has just been told the unthinkable, that Carthage has surrendered to the
Imagine the western front during the spring of 1917. The sound of the whistleblowing indicated the start of an assault. Masses of soldiers crawled out
Colonel Tibbets could not see anything through his army-issued anti-glare goggles, so he flung them off. The crew and witnesses were blinded by the absence
United States history is filled with dramatic events and time periods correlating to the vast, wild, and sometimes reckless founding and expansion of Europeans fleeing
The Rodney Reed case reminds us of past racial injustices and the many ways in which the Jim Crow legacy remains very much alive today.
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n the summer of 1914, the European continent entered a new and significant era of its history: the Great War. Scholars have discussed the factors
Social media tends to distract its consumers from real-world problems. Internet trolls can make life-threatening issues into jokes and discredit the magnitude of real problems.
It was mid-morning on Friday, November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy, along with his wife, the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Mr. John Connally,
In December 2013, Harvard University was rocked by a bomb threat. As the threat threw the campus into a state of chaos, local law enforcement
Was it true what was said? Was it true that there, in that little town of Huanta, the villagers had killed five terrorists? These were
In the middle of the Finnish hinterland, Soviet soldiers huddled desperately around a big fire, trying to gather even the slightest hint of heat in
Herbicidal warfare became popular when the United States Army decided to use it to weaken the enemy during the Vietnam War. Herbicides are chemicals that
When we think about myths the words magic, fantasy and adventure usually come to mind. Nevertheless, throughout history, myths and legends have been used as
On July 5, 1854, Ramón Castilla had just taken control over the Peruvian Andean village of Ayacucho in the midst of his “Liberal Revolution,” aimed
Sunday, December 7, 1941 promised blue skies and warm temperatures at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Just prior to 8:00 a.m., the
1871 was the year for Italy. After so many ups and downs, Italy had finally managed to unify its independent states and was successful in
She was the only woman of the graduating class of 1866 at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. She had been through a long, challenging
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