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

The Lincoln-Douglas debates pushed the possibility of a Lincoln presidency into inevitability. Positioned against Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois in...

On May 5, 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American in space. It was just a...

Less than two months after the siege of the Alamo, the Texas War for Independence took a turn towards triumph;...

Intrinsically, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a conservationist, who once said, “the forests are the lungs of our land [which] purify...

By March 22, 1765, the British–short on funds to absorb the costs of their military presence in the colonies–unloaded the...

Nineteen months after her 1880 birth, Helen Keller contracted scarlet fever–or bacterial meningitis—which left her blind, deaf, and mute. Her...

Twenty years after the United States was freed of Britain, America went to war, again–this time against the populous pirate...

According to the United States Postal Service, the people of note–who are under consideration for commemoration on new stamps–is the...

Benjamin Franklin, the paternal polymath of Revolutionary America, was born January 17, 1706, and died eighty-four years later. His formal...

Whatever you call it: “Continental Colors”; “Congress Flag”; “Cambridge Flag”, or “Grand Union Flag” — it was the first national...

Orville and Wilbur Wright had an astute sense about how things worked, and–an enormous aptitude to build things, and monetize...