American novelist Edith Wharton was the first female to win a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence in 1921. In 1927, 1928, and 1930, she was nomina...
Sometimes, people set out with an idea in their heads to invent something useful. Other times, they create something completely by accident that ends up changin...
Writer, philosopher, and women’s rights advocate, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote many novels and treatises along with a travel narrative, a history of the French Rev...
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...
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ICELAND - archaeologists working at Eyjafjörður fjord in northern Iceland uncovered a massive burial site earlier this month. Now...
"Ideology, expressed in material form and through aspects of public rituals and public ceremonial structures, played a significant role in the development of ...
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...
