The first African American to serve on the U.S. Congress was Hiram Rhodes Revels. He was elected to the United States Senate from Mississippi in 1870 until 1871...
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was President Woodrow Wilson’s second wife and from 1915-1921, she was the First Lady of the United States. When her husband suffered ...
Since George Washington first became president in 1789, we have had 44 different presidents, 14 of which were Vice Presidents. Five of these were elected presid...
Born Maria Beatrice Anna Margherita Isabella d’Este, Mary of Modena was the second wife of James II and VII and was his Queen consort. When she married James, h...
Educator and civil rights activist Septima Poinsette Clark played a significant part in gaining voting and civil rights for African Americans. Clark is known as...
The German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact was signed on August 23, 1939, just before World War II, by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. By signing the pact, the cou...
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova of Russia was Tsar Nicholas II’s youngest daughter. Tsar Nicholas was the final sovereign of Imperial Russia as the ...
The founder of Mother’s Day in the United States was Anna Jarvis. It became an official holiday in 1908, after she created it in 1904. However, Jarvis denounced...
Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner is known for leading a group of scientists, along with Otto Hahn, who were the first to discover that when it absorbed a...
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy) was a renowned Russian author and one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best known for his two novels War ...
