BY:Â HISTORY.COM EDITORS The 13 colonies founded along the Eastern seaboard in the 17th and 18th centuries weren’t the first colonial outposts on the American…
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By DAVE ROOS When the Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, they represented a loosely held confederacy of Atlantic states recently freed from…
BY HISTORY.COM Motherâs Day is a holiday honoring motherhood that is observed in different forms throughout the world. In the United States, Motherâs Day…
Cruel efforts under Stalin to impose collectivism and tamp down Ukrainian nationalism left an estimated 3.9 million dead. PATRICK J. KIGER At the height of…
Starting 50 years before the end of slavery, the American Colonization Society moved 12,000 people from America to West Africa. BECKY LITTLE The biggest question…
On April 26, 2012, former Liberian president Charles Taylor is found guilty of abetting horrific war crimes, including rape and mutilation in Sierra Leone. His conviction was…
By SARAH PRUITT The FBI has finally declassified its files on Nikola Tesla, but questions remain. After Nikola Tesla was found dead in January 1943 in his…