HISTORYflipped into Stories Minimum Wage in America: A Timelinehistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger When Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, it represented a major shift in labor policy. For the first time, the federal government …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesPregnancy How U.S. Employers Have Handled Pregnancy in the Workplacehistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt As the only industrialized nation in the world with no federal policy mandating paid maternity leave, the United States has a long and complicated …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesAbraham Lincoln The Lingering Legend of Abraham Lincoln's Ghosthistory.com - By History.com Editors Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States (1861-1865), is remembered for his vital role as the leader in preserving the Union …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory When a 19th-Century ‘Spirit Photographer’ Claimed to Capture Ghosts Through His Lenshistory.com - By Dave Roos Even 150 years later, the eerie spirit photographs taken by Boston photographer William Mumler pack an emotional punch. A mourning mother is visited …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory How FDR Became the First—And Only—President to Serve Four Termshistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy On November 5, 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt broke a long-held precedent—one that started with George Washington—when he became the first president …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory What Inspired 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow'?history.com - By Lesley Kennedy The Legend of Sleepy Hollow resurfaces every year around Halloween. Washington Irving's 1820 tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes the real-life …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesChristopher Columbus The Ships of Christopher Columbus Were Sleek, Fast—and Crampedhistory.com - By Dave Roos On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus and his crew set sail from the port of Palos in southern Spain on three vessels: la Santa Clara (Niña), la …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHalloween Halloween Costumes That Disguised, Spooked and Thrilled Through the Ages: Photoshistory.com - By Becky Little You can tell a lot about a particular era of American history by looking at its Halloween costumes—not just what people are afraid of, but also …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesWhiskey How Whiskey Became the Backbone of the U.S. Economyhistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger Whiskey—a liquor whose origins in medieval Scotland or Ireland remain murky—once was an uncommon, exotic liquor in the 13 colonies, where rum, gin …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesChristopher Columbus Why Columbus Day Courts Controversyhistory.com - By History.com Editors Over 500 year after he "discovered" the New World—kicking off centuries of exploration and colonization of the Americas—Christopher Columbus is still …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHorror Movies The Real Stories Behind Classic Horror Movieshistory.com - By Becky Little How do you make a horror tale scarier? Just say it’s “based on a true story.” That’s a technique book publishers and movie producers have been using …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHalloween How Trick-or-Treating Became a Halloween Traditionhistory.com - By History.com Editors Trick-or-treating—setting off on Halloween night in costume and ringing doorbells to demand treats—has been a tradition in the United States and …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHouse of Lords 12 Surprising Facts About the Legislative Branchhistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy The executive branch enforces laws. The judicial branch interprets laws. But it is in the law-making legislative branch, says Howard Schweber, a …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory When Gandhi’s Salt March Rattled British Colonial Rulehistory.com - By Evan Andrews Since the late-1910s, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi had been at the forefront of India’s quest to shake off the yoke of British colonial domination, …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory This Mexican American Teenager Spent Years in a Japanese Internment Camp—On Purposehistory.com - By Erin Blakemore The station was filled with worried faces and hushed voices. Soon, those who gathered there would leave their lives and livelihoods behind as …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory The First Latino Congressman’s Election Was Contested—Twicehistory.com - By Erin Blakemore When Romualdo Pacheco walked up to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1877, he’d already served in nearly every government capacity in the …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesFrench Revolution How Bread Shortages Helped Ignite the French Revolutionhistory.com - By Una McIlvenna Voltaire once remarked that Parisians required only “the comic opera and white bread.” But bread has also played a dark role in French history and, …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesMagna Carta How Did Magna Carta Influence the U.S. Constitution?history.com - By Dave Roos In 1215, a band of rebellious medieval barons forced King John of England to agree to a laundry list of concessions later called the Great Charter, …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesAncient History The Prehistoric Ages: How Humans Lived Before Written Recordshistory.com - By Lesley Kennedy Earth’s beginnings can be traced back 4.5 billion years, but human evolution only counts for a tiny speck of its history. The Prehistoric Period—or …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesContinental Congress U.S. Whistleblowers First Got Government Protection in 1777history.com - By Christopher Klein The U.S. government has long made protecting whistleblowers a priority. In fact, just seven months after the signing of the Declaration of …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesBrady Bunch Why the 'Radical' Brady Bunch Almost Never Got Madehistory.com - By Erin Blakemore It’s been burned into generations of brains: the story of a lovely lady and a man named Brady whose marriage creates a blended family of eight (not …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesTyrannosaurus Rex How T. Rex Got Its Powerful Bitehistory.com - By Sarah Pruitt With blunt, serrated teeth and a bite powerful enough to crush the bones of its prey, Tyrannosaurus rex has earned a reputation as one of the largest …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory 7 Reasons Why the Chicago 8 Trial Matteredhistory.com - By Becky Little The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago is most-remembered for what happened on the streets outside of it. Before the convention began on …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory Why the Great Steel Strike of 1919 Was One of Labor’s Biggest Failureshistory.com - By Erin Blakemore Mike Connolly had a dream: an eight-hour day. A Pennsylvania steel worker for 41 years, he toiled for 12 or more hours a day behind the locked doors …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory Enslaved Couples Faced Wrenching Separations, or Even Choosing Family Over Freedomhistory.com - By Tera W. Hunter For enslaved African Americans, the ideal of marriage as an enduring lifelong bond was rarely an option. When couples stood before clergy or other …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesAncient History 10 Inventions From China's Han Dynasty That Changed the Worldhistory.com - By Patrick J. Kiger When a commoner named Liu Bang became the first emperor of the Han Dynasty in 206 B.C., it was the start of a period of more than 400 years that was …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesU.S. Navy Navy Confirms UFO Videos Are Real and Show Unidentified Aerial Phenomenahistory.com - By Becky Little The U.S. Navy has confirmed that three F-18 gun-camera videos first released by The New York Times and a UFO research organization show “unidentified …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesElizabeth I Why Royal Guests Have Always Been a Royal Painhistory.com - By Hadley Meares Every summer, Queen Elizabeth I and her massive court set out on a months’ long progress, with a mile-long train of dozens of carriages, carts and …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory The Mendez Family Fought School Segregation 8 Years Before Brown v. Board of Edhistory.com - By Dave Roos Brown v. Board of Education was the landmark Supreme Court case that ended racial segregation in schools in 1954. But it wasn’t the first to take on …
HISTORYflipped into StoriesHistory Sunken Nazi Gold and 4 Other Never-Found Treasureshistory.com - By Eudie Pak Legend has it that the Nazis dumped billions of dollars worth of stolen gold—in the area of $5.6 billion—into the waters of Lake Toplitz, an isolated …
