Dr. Charles Richard Drew was a physician, surgeon, and medical researcher. Drew specifically researched blood transfusions and was able to develop new technique...
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson was an American writer and activist. She advocated to improve the treatment of Native Americans. In her 1881 book, A Century of Dishono...
Four presidents have been assassinated during their terms, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy, while there were over 30 a...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, is best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter. Most of his books take place in New England and are classified as dark r...
American journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, or “Nellie Bly” is famous for breaking records when she traveled around the world in 72 days and for exposing...
American electrical engineer Elisha Gray was one of the co-founders of the Western Electric Manufacturing Company and also developed the telephone prototype in ...
On July 11, 1804, former secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton met Vice President Aaron Burr at Weehawken, New Jersey for one fateful duel. The two promi...
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It's been a mystery that has confounded history enthusiasts for years.
What happened to Amelia Earhart?
This month, on t...
Roger Sherman was a lawyer and statesman during colonial America. He is the only person to have signed all four of the United States’ great state papers: the Co...
Today in the United States, Independence Day is celebrated on July 4th, and the day is commonly called the Fourth of July. In 1941, it was made a federal holida...
