During World War II, the United States and Japan fought as bitter enemies. Yet during the Cold War and beyond,…
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On the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, a naval base in the U.S. territory of…
When Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the Supreme Court on October 4, 1953, the…
A little more than three years after Neil Armstrong took mankind’s first steps on the moon, Apollo 17 astronauts left…
Super Mario, one of the most iconic characters in video game history, made his inauspicious debut in 1981. He wasn’t…
By the year 1987, the AIDS epidemic had reached grim proportions. The disease had killed almost 60,000 people worldwide, and…
As decades go, the 1980s had more than its share of iconic technology, from Walkmen to VCRs to pagers. Most…
Despite the horrors of slavery, it was no easy decision to flee. Escaping often involved leaving behind family and heading…
They called her “Moses” for leading enslaved people in the South to freedom up North. But Harriet Tubman fought the institution…
During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass used his stature as the most prominent African American social reformer, orator, writer and…