Born Fannie Coralie Perkins, Frances Perkins Wilson made history when she was appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry ...
Jane Addams was a leading women's rights activist and suffragist. She was one of the most prominent social reformers of the Progressive Era. As a suffragist, pi...
The Hell’s Angels is a group so well known that in some areas, the name doesn’t need any further explanation at all. An infamous motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Ang...
Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch stole everything, including their name. The original Wild Bunch, A.K.A. The Doolin-Dalton Gang ran their operation out of the Oklahom...
Urban legends have a way of sticking around in popular folklore, taking on a life of their own over the years. What once was just a scary story for children, ho...
Buildings and places have a habit of getting tied to certain points in history, becoming linked inextricably to an event. While certain constructions have this ...
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Kwanzaa is the newest addition to the winter holidays. It was created fifty years ago, and since it's so new, it's often misunders...
It was a cold day in Long Island that January 1939 when William “Willy” Patrick Hitler immigrated with his Irish mother to the United States. William Randolph H...
Major historical breakthroughs in science often come with a dark backstory. While we might be on the road to developing safe methods of treating illness, it was...
Louisa May Alcott is known for her famous classic Little Women, published in 1868. She wrote two sequels to the book as well. Throughout her life, her...
