Category: History Knowledge

In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant traveled to Washington, D.C., to receive his commission from Abraham Lincoln as lieutenant-general at the head of all Union

When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, America was waging a war on two fronts: one for the independence of the

It was the ultimate experience of social distancing. On September 26, 1991, four men and four women in dark blue coveralls said goodbye to friends,

In the summer of 1965, support for the conflict in Vietnam eroded, advisers to President Lyndon B. Johnson recommending sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers

The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby was found on May 12, 1932, more than two months after being kidnapped from his family’s mansion

You’ve heard of the Vietnam War, but what about the “secret war” in Laos? More than 16 million members of the largest generation fought in

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world’s first birth control bill – Enovid-10, manufactured by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. The

How Willie Nelson Helped Build Farm Aid In the mid-1980s, American farmers faced economic difficulties unknown since the Great Depression. The droughts of 1980 and

It’s one of the most iconic photos in American history. A woman in ragged clothes holds a baby as two other children come closer, hiding