Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe is best known for 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin that showed how harsh life for African American slaves was. The novel became infl...
The Seneca Falls Convention, held on July 19 to July 20, 1848, was the first ever women’s rights convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and other fe...
The League of Nations, an intergovernmental organization, was founded on January 10, 1920 after the Paris Peace Conference that brought the Great War to an end....
Robert R. Livingston, nicknamed “The Chancellor”, was the first United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the 1st Chancellor of New York, a position which ...
Broadway, or Broadway theatre, is theatre performances in New York in the 41 professional theatres that have 500 or more seats located along Broadway. Broadway ...
Have you ever wondered who the best selling authors of all time are? This is a list of the five all time best selling authors based on estimated sales.
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President Andrew Johnson succeeded President Abraham Lincoln upon his death in 1865. Johnson was Lincoln’s Vice President. In 1868, Johnson was impeached by the...
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln was President Abraham Lincoln’s wife and First Lady of the United States for four years, from 1861 to 1865, but was an unpopular first lad...
The first woman in the United States to hold national office was Jeannette Pickering Rankin, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1917-1919. Twe...
The Siege of Boston began the American Revolution, beginning on April 1775 and lasting until March 1776. Colonial militiamen were able to successfully say siege...
