History Matters

History Matters — A biweekly feature courtesy of The Grateful American Book Prize. Showing our children that their past is a prelude to their future.

History Matters
November 16 to 30, 2021

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future.

History Matters
November 1 to November 15, 2021

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future.

History Matters
October 16 to October 31, 2021

Showing our children that their past is prelude to their future.

History Matters
October 1 to October 15, 2021

Edward Bellamy wrote Looking Backwards in 1888. It featured a 19th century time traveler who journeyed to the 21st century...

History Matters
September 16 to September 30, 2021

The sequence of events is not given much thought, but in 1881, America had three, different presidents. In March, James...

History Matters
September 1 to September 15, 2021

P.T. Barnum made a fortune selling fantasies under his eponymous Grand Scientific & Musical Theater, American Museum, and the circus,...

History Matters
August 16 to August 31, 2021

There are some who believe the suffrage movement began on July 4, 1776—even though traction was tepid until the mid-1800s....

History Matters
August 1 to August 15, 2021

On August 3, 1958, USS Nautilus, the world’s inaugural nuclear-powered submarine, turned into the first seagoing vessel to reach the...

History Matters
July 16 to July 31, 2021

On July 17, 1975, a coterie of astronauts, and cosmonauts, rendezvoused in the stars. According to some, America and the...

History Matters
July 1 to July 15, 2021

Even though America declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress had—in the previous year—approved...

History Matters
June 16 to June 30, 2021

NASA might have been conceived in 1958, but America’s astronaut corps did not accept women until twenty years later; in...

History Matters
June 1 to June 15, 2021

On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation put an end to slavery in the United States, but it took time...