HISTORYHistory Missing in Action: How Military Families in Tortuous Limbo Galvanized a Movement history.com - By Jessica Pearce Rotondi “MIA” stands for missing in action, a term used to refer to members of the armed forces who have not returned from military service and whose …
HISTORYMilitary History Why Hitler Secretly Met With a Japanese General During WWII history.com - By Natasha Frost In December 1940, three months after Japan, Germany and Italy signed their “Tripartite Pact” World War II alliance, a convoy of Japanese military …
HISTORYHistory When Galileo Stood Trial for Defending Science history.com - By Mario Livio Four centuries ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei put his liberty and life on the line to convince the religious establishment that the …
HISTORYHistory When Did People Start Eating in Restaurants? history.com - By Dave Roos People have been eating outside of the home for millennia, buying a quick snack from a street vendor or taking a travel break at a roadside inn for a …
HISTORYHistory The Post World War II Boom: How America Got Into Gear history.com - By Sarah Pruitt In the summer of 1945, as World War II drew to a close, the U.S. economy was poised on the edge of an uncertain future. Since President Franklin D. …
HISTORYHistory How Did Billy the Kid Die? history.com - By Patrick J. Kiger Western outlaw Billy the Kid met his demise at about 12:30 a.m. on July 14, 1881, when he went to his friend Pete Maxwell’s home in Fort Sumner, New …
HISTORYMilitary History 7 Reasons Ulysses S. Grant Was One of America’s Most Brilliant Military Leaders history.com - By Elizabeth D. Samet In March 1864, Ulysses S. Grant went to Washington, D.C., to receive his commission from Abraham Lincoln as lieutenant general in command of all the …
HISTORYHistory Crude Smallpox Inoculations in 1770s Were Risky, But Helped George Washington Win the War history.com - By Dave Roos When George Washington took command of the Continental Army in 1775, America was fighting a war on two fronts: one for independence from the British, …
HISTORY When Biosphere 2 Became a Grand Experiment in Self-Isolation history.com - By Christopher Klein On September 26, 1991, four men and four women in dark-blue spacesuits waved goodbye to friends, families and a bank of television cameras as they …
HISTORY How the Vietnam War Draft Spurred the Fight for Lowering the Legal Voting Age history.com - By Dante A. Ciampaglia In the summer of 1965, support for the conflict in Vietnam eroded as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s advisors recommended sending hundreds of thousands …
HISTORYMilitary History 5 US Wars Rarely Found in History Books history.com - By Jessica Pearce Rotondi You’ve heard of the Vietnam War, but what about the “secret war” in Laos? Over 16 million members of the Greatest Generation fought in World War II, …
HISTORYPhotographers The Real Story Behind the ‘Migrant Mother’ in the Great Depression-Era Photo history.com - By Sarah Pruitt It’s one of the most iconic photos in American history. A woman in ragged clothing holds a baby as two more children huddle close, hiding their faces …
HISTORYHistory How Willie Nelson Helped Build Farm Aid history.com - By Colin Bertram By the mid-1980s American farmers were facing economic hardships not seen since the Great Depression. Droughts in 1980 and 1983 had wrought …
HISTORYHistory Bankrupt and Dying from Cancer, Ulysses S. Grant Waged His Greatest Battle history.com - By Christopher Klein Shortly before noon on May 6, 1884, Ulysses S. Grant entered the office of his Wall Street brokerage firm a wealthy man. Hours later, he exited a …
HISTORYHistory When Mask-Wearing Rules in the 1918 Pandemic Faced Resistance history.com - By Becky Little The influenza pandemic of 1918 and 1919 was the most deadly flu outbreak in history, killing up to 50 million people worldwide. In the United States, …
HISTORYHistory The Key Way West Point Prepared Ulysses S. Grant for the Civil War history.com - By Elizabeth D. Samet Ulysses S. Grant, who graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1843, didn’t go there because he dreamed of being a soldier. The …
HISTORYHistory How the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin Ignited a Push for Asian American Rights history.com - By Becky Little On June 19, 1982, a Chinese American man named Vincent Chin went with friends to a strip club in Detroit to celebrate his upcoming wedding. That …
HISTORYHistory How Lincoln and Grant's Partnership Won the Civil War history.com - By Christopher Klein President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant didn’t meet often in person. But their mutual respect and trust grew deep over the final year …
HISTORYHistory How Nixon’s Presidency Became Increasingly Erratic After Kent State history.com - By Christopher Klein Richard Nixon couldn’t sleep. Four days after the Kent State shootings, the president sat in the sitting room off the Lincoln Bedroom listening to a …
HISTORYMilitary History When a US Hospital Ship Was Attacked by a Kamikaze Pilot During WWII history.com - By Christopher Klein Through war and peace, American hospital ships have served the country since 1804 and the First Barbary War. Although these floating hospitals embark …
HISTORYHistory Kent State Shootings: A Timeline of the Tragedy history.com - By Sarah Pruitt On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard trying to disperse a crowd of student demonstrators at Kent State University opened fire, killing …
HISTORYHistory Amid 1918 Pandemic, Bootleg Whiskey Became a Respectable Medicine history.com - By Greg Daugherty When influenza began to sweep through the U.S. in 1918, a frightened nation looked to an unproven but familiar remedy: whiskey. There was just one …
HISTORYHistory Steps Leading to the Fall of Saigon—And the Final, Chaotic Airlifts history.com - By Christopher Klein The dulcet tones of “White Christmas” that crackled over Armed Forces Radio airwaves on April 29, 1975, failed to spread cheer across sunbaked …
HISTORYHistory We've Had 12 Recessions Since WWII. Here's How We Got Out of Them history.com - By Dave Roos A recession is defined as a contraction in economic growth lasting two quarters or more as measured by the gross domestic product (GDP). Starting …
HISTORYHistory How Pandemics Spurred Cities to Make More Green Space for People history.com - By Christopher Klein Cholera tore through New York City in the summer of 1832, leaving its victims with sunken eyes, blue skin, severe diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. It …
HISTORYHistory How Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia Triggered a Check on Presidential Power history.com - By Jessica Pearce Rotondi When President Richard Nixon ordered U.S. ground troops to invade Cambodia on April 28, 1970, he waited two days to announce on national television …
HISTORY President Ulysses S. Grant: Known for Scandals, Overlooked for Achievements history.com - By Greg Daugherty For decades after his death in 1885, Ulysses S. Grant suffered a reputation as one of the nation’s worst presidents, consistently ranking in the …
HISTORY When WWI, Pandemic and Slump Ended, Americans Sprung Into the Roaring Twenties history.com - By Dave Roos The unprecedented death and destruction wrought by World War I leveled economies the world over, but the situation was different in the United States. …
HISTORY How the Black Death Spread Along the Silk Road history.com - By Patrick J. Kiger The Silk Road, a network of land and sea trade routes that connected China and the Far East with Europe from 130 B.C. to 1453 A.D., became a vital …
