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By Christopher Klein Lincoln was so taken with the new technology—which he called ‘lightning messages’—that he sometimes slept on a cot in the telegraph office during major battles.!– tml-version=”2″ –Nearly […]

By Christopher Klein The Founding Father opposed slavery, but he bought and sold enslaved people for his in-laws—and possibly even his own household.!– tml-version=”2″ –, Hamilton wrote that “all men have one […]

By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –Niagara Movement members begin meeting on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls. This all-African American group of scholars, lawyers and businessmen came together […]

By Becky Little After the deadly pandemic was over, no one really wanted to talk about it—and besides, there was so much else going on.!– tml-version=”2″ –The , he barely mentioned this important historical […]

By Dave Roos Columbus’s famed voyage was celebrated by Italian-Americans, in particular, as a pathway to their own acceptance in America.!– tml-version=”2″ –. Columbus’s heroic stature was further cemented by […]

By Erin Blakemore About 8,500 women attended the camps inspired by the CCC and organized by Eleanor Roosevelt—but the “She-She-She” program was mocked and eventually abandoned.!– tml-version=”2″ –During the <a target="_blank" […]

By History.com Editors The trailblazing aviator’s disappearance remains a source of fascination—and controversy.!– tml-version=”2″ –On the morning of July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred […]

By Patrick J. Kiger Eliza Hamilton poured her energy into founding a free school and an orphanage in New York to help children in need.!– tml-version=”2″ –After Vice President explains. “Eliza Hamilton wanted […]

By Becky Little The colony of Rhode Island once had the highest percentage of enslaved people in New England, and was a dominant player in the global slave trade.!– tml-version=”2″ –Slavery was a dominant […]

By Yohuru Williams The founding fathers were fighting for freedom—just not for everyone.!– tml-version=”2″ –With its soaring rhetoric about all men being “created equal,” the Declaration of Independence gave […]

By Christopher Klein Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill hammered out postwar matters like the creation of the United Nations, the fate of Eastern Europe and the ‘dismemberment’ of Germany.!– tml-version=”2″ –By […]

By Sarah Pruitt Hamilton lobbied against Burr, but another federalist cast the deciding vote for Thomas Jefferson.!– tml-version=”2″ –As the presidential election of 1800 approached, Americans were more […]

By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ — June 26, 2015 marks a major milestone for civil rights in the United States, as the Supreme Court announces its decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. By one […]

By Thad Morgan From spirituals to ballads, funk and hip hop, these songs have provided a sound track to the pride and struggle of African Americans through the centuries.!– tml-version=”2″ –For centuries, […]

By Greg Daugherty They had dueling agendas—and just four days to resolve them.!– tml-version=”2″ –For four days in November-December 1943, as , and tune in Sundays at 9/8c for all-new episodes.Roosevelt not […]

By Dave Roos It took just four years to get the mumps vaccine ready for market—but its development leaned heavily on groundwork that had been established during World War II.!– tml-version=”2″ –The invention […]

By History.com Editors !– tml-version=”2″ –On the morning of June 27, 2015, activists posing as joggers signal to one of their comrades that the police have momentarily turned their attention away from the […]

By Becky Little Here’s why D.C. license plates say “End Taxation Without Representation.”!– tml-version=”2″ –Leading up to the American Revolution, one of the colonists’ chief complaints about the British […]

By Colette Coleman Following Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831, legislation to limit black people’s access to education intensified. But enslaved people found ways to learn.!– tml-version=”2″ –On August 21, 1831, […]

By Becky Little The campaign used fake news to shift U.S. opinion about going to war with Germany.!– tml-version=”2″ –In June of 1941, Americans read about an extraordinary British mission into Nazi-occupied […]