Alcohol and Related Legislation
- American Alcohol Consumption Before 18th Amendment
- 18th Amendment Partially Modified by FDR
- 21st Amendment Ratified
- Absinthe
- Beer Purity Law
- Champagne – Story of Madame Clicquot
- FDR Legalizes Sale of Beer & Wine
- History of Beer
- Kentucky Bourbon
- Kentucky Wine Restrictions
- Maine Passes 1st Prohibition Law in US
- Mississippi Repeals Last State Prohibition Law
- Rum and its Sordid History
- Scotch Whisky Laws
- Whiskey Tax Rebellion
Amendments to the Constitution
- Corwin Proposed Amendment to Protect Slavery
- 1st-10th Amendments
- 2nd Amendment
- 11th Amendment Ratified
- 12th Amendment Ratified
- 14th Amendment
- 14th Amendment – Background
- 14th Amendment – “A New Birth of Freedom“
- 14th Amendment – “The Second Founding“
- 15th Amendment and Ulysses S. Grant
- 16th Amendment
- 17th Amendment Wins Approval
- 18th Amendment
- 19th Amendment
- 20th Amendment
- 21st Amendment Ratified
- 22nd Amendment Ratified
- 23rd Amendment Ratified
- 24th Amendment Ratified
- 25th Amendment and other Presidential Succession Acts
- 26th Amendment Ratified
American Communism (see also Communism)
- Anti-Communist Raids
- Communist Control Act
- Joseph McCarthy & Communist Witch Hunt in Congress
- U. of C. Proposes Mandatory Loyalty Oath
American Flag
- Supreme Court Rules Students Not Forced to Salute Flag or Recite Pledge
- President Washington Approves Changes to American Flag
American Indians (see Native Americans)
American Revolution
- American Creation
- Barring Slaves & Free Blacks from the Army
- Battle of the Chesapeake
- Battles of Lexington and Concord
- Beaumarchais and French Aid for American Revolution
- Benedict Arnold Defects
- Boston Tea Party
- The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson
- British Parliament Passes Stamp Act
- Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Burning of Falmouth, Massachusetts
- Casimir Pulaski
- Declaration of Independence Adopted
- Earl of Dunmore Issues First Emancipation Proclamation – 1775
- Engaging With History in the Classroom: The American Revolution
- Improbable Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
- John Adams Declares July 2, not July 4, as Independence Day
- John Adams Predicts the Future History of the American Revolution
- Boston Tea Party
- Liberty’s Blueprint
- The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
- Revolutionary Protest in Maryland at Hungerford Tavern
- Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
- Scars of Independence: American’s Violent Birth
- Treaties Signed Between America and France
- Treaty of Paris
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Women Heroes of the American Revolution
Ancient History
- Cicero – Birth
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
- The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
- The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History by James J. O’Donnell
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Antisemitism and the Holocaust
- Anne Frank was Captured
- Antisemitism – Political Uses Per Sigmund Freud
- Auschwitz and Birkenau
- Barcelona, Spain Massacre of Jews
- Bucharest, Romania Massacres of Jews
- Children of Tehran
- Dreyfus Case
- Elie Wiesel
- Expulsion of Jews from Russia
- Father Charles Coughlin
- FDR Receives Detailed Info about the Holocaust in 1942
- Feng Shan Ho
- Final Destruction of Jews in Eishishok, Lithuania
- German Army Occupies Vilna
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Jedwabne Massacre of Jews in Poland
- Lodz Ghetto Liquidation
- Massacre of Jews in York, England
- Aristides de Sousa Mendes named “Righteous Gentile” for helping save Jews during Holocaust
- Mimi Reinhard, Secretary to Oskar Schindler
- My Real Name is Hanna re Holocaust in Ukraine
- Nazis Arrive in Krakow, Poland
- Order Banning Jews from Emigrating from the Reich
- Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
- The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German Jewish Epoch from 1743-1933 by Amos Elan
- Pope Clement VIII Expels Jews from Papal States
- Pope Paul IV Orders Jews into a Ghetto
- Pro-Fascist Rally in New York
- Romania
- Smoke Over Birkenau
- Soviet Army Liberates Lodz Ghetto
- Soviets Torpedo Ship Full of Jewish Refugees
- Spain Finally Voids Ban on Jews After 500 Years
- Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Campaign
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Uprising at Nazi Concentration Camp Sobibor
- Warsaw Ghetto Resistance
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Atomic Weapons and Atomic Power
- Air Force General Would Justify Nuking Russia to Jesus
- Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes
- Bomb: The Race to Build & Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
- Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, The Damascus Accident, and The Illusion of Safety
- Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Speech
- Explosion of the First Atomic Bomb
- Explosion of the First Hydrogen Bomb
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War (review of book by Neil Sheehan on development of Minuteman Missiles)
- First British Nuclear Test
- First Chinese Nuclear Test
- First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- First Voyage to North Pole by Nuclear-Powered Sub
- Klaus Fuchs
- The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- Government Plutonium Experimentation on Unaware Victims
- Hiroshima
- Lise Meitner
- Mid-Air Collision Involving Nuclear Weapons
- North Carolina Almost Destroyed by Nuclear Weapons
- Nuclear Accident in Damascus, Arkansas
- Nuclear Accident in Japan
- Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
- Truman Announces the Hydrogen Bomb
- Truman Approves the H-Bomb
- USSR First Successful Launch of an ICBM
- World’s First Nuclear Generator Begins Production in USSR
- WWI Quebec Conference on Military Strategy & Use of Nuclear Weapons
Australia
- Australia Day
- Australian Senator Calls for “Final Solution” to Immigration Problem
- First British Nuclear Test (off coast of Australia)
- Gallipoli
- Immigration Restriction
- Internment in Australia
Biographies (but see separate entries for Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson, Hamilton, LBJ, MLK, Lincoln, Jackie Robinson, Sherman, & Subject Area Indexes)
- Ralph Abernathy
- Abigail Adams and Racism
- Louisa Adams, wife of John Quincy Adams
- Konrad Adenauer
- Spiro Agnew
- Amos Akerman
- Aldrich Ames
- Sadie Mossell Alexander
- Robert Ames
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Marian Anderson
- Mary Anning
- Susan B. Anthony
- Benedict Arnold
- Les Aspin
- David Axelrod
- Ralph Baer, Father of Video Games
- Ella Baker
- Josephine Baker
- Benjamin Banneker
- Patricia Bath
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell
- Rosa May Billinghurst
- John Bingham, Author of 14th Amendment
- Charles L. Black, Jr.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Florence Blanchfield
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Niels Bohr
- Jane Bolin
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Edward W. Brooke
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- John Brown
- Blanche K. Bruce
- Eugene Bullard
- McGeorge Bundy
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Aaron Burr
- Smedley Butler
- Jane Byrne
- Ebb Cade
- John C. Calhoun
- Geoffrey Canada
- Hattie Wyatt Caraway
- Lewis Carroll
- Rachel Carson
- Roger Casement
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Catherine the Great
- Julius Chambers
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlemagne
- Charles VI
- Lydia Maria Child
- Cicero
- Septima Clark
- Edith Clarke
- Henry Clay
- George Clymer
- Jane Colden
- William Coleman
- Captain James Cook
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Father Charles Coughlin
- Robert M. Cover
- Crazy Horse
- Oliver Cromwell
- Marie Curie
- George Armstrong Custer
- Nathan Dane, Author of Northwest Ordinance
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Charles Darwin
- Jefferson Davis
- Shani Davis
- Eugene V. Debs
- Martin Delany
- Aristides de Sousa Mendes
- Thomas E. Dewey
- Stephen A. Douglas
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Edward Dudley
- Allen Dulles
- Amelia Earhart
- Annie Easley
- Gertrude Ederle
- Albert Einstein
- Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington
- Frederick Engles
- Ferdinand II
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Richard Feynman
- Hamilton Fish
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Clara Foltz
- Anne Frank
- Benjamin Franklin
- Rosalind Franklin
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- Klaus Fuchs
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- William Lloyd Garrison
- James Homer Garrott
- Gabrielle Giffords
- Josephine Clara Goldmark
- Woody Guthrie
- Indira Ghandi
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Samuel Gompers
- George F. Grant
- Jack Greenberg
- Andrei Gromyko
- Galusha Grow
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Learned Hand
- Lorraine Hansberry
- John Hanson
- Judson Harmon
- Charles Leo “Gabby” Hartnett
- Patrick Henry
- Anita Hill
- Margaret Hinchey
- Lewis Hine
- Earl “Fatha” Hines
- Feng Shan Ho
- Dorothy Hodgkin
- Billie Holiday
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- Langston Hughes
- James Weldon Johnson
- Louisa Johnson, future wife of John Quincy Adams
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Helen Keller
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Francis Scott Key
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Susan La Flesche
- Henry Laurens
- T. E. Lawrence
- Charles Lee
- Clara Lemlich
- Charles Lindbergh
- Viola Liuzzo
- Huey Long
- Ada Lovelace
- John Roy Lynch
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dolly Madison
- Malcolm X
- Nelson Mandela
- Wilma Mankiller
- Effa Manley
- Nathan Ross Margold
- Anne Henrietta Martin
- Karl Marx
- George Mason
- Bat Masterson
- Joseph McCarthy
- Thomas McKean
- Robert McNamara
- Lise Meitner
- Lidia Menapace
- John Willis Menard
- Harriet Mill
- Arthur Miller
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Walter Mondale
- Charles Morgan, Jr.
- Stanley Mosk
- Constance Baker Motley
- Pauli Murray
- Benito Mussolini
- Napoleon
- Horatio Nelson
- Isaac Newton
- Paul Nitze
- Emmy Noether
- Caroline Norton
- Frederick Law Olmsted
- Charlie Parker
- Rosa Parks
- Alice Paul
- Ethel L. Payne
- Nancy Pelosi
- William Penn
- Frances Perkins
- Thomas Pinckney
- Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin – “Madame Clicquot”
- Richard Posner
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Leontyne Price
- Richard Price
- Casimir Pulaski
- Harriet Quimby
- Lawrence Dunbar Reddick
- Bass Reeves
- Mimi Reinhard
- Richard III
- Jacob Riis
- Paul Robeson
- Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson – Birth
- John Rock
- John D. Rockefeller
- Nancy Grace Roman
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elihu Root
- Julius Rosenwald
- Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross
- Vera Rubin
- Bayard Rustin
- Margaret Sanger
- Philip Schuyler
- William Seward
- Mary Ann Shadd
- James Shields
- Peter Sichel
- Charlie Sifford
- Nina Simone
- William H. Smith – African-American Librarian of Congress
- Edward Snowden
- Mary Somerville
- George Soros
- Ainsworth Spofford
- Joseph Stalin
- Alice Stebbins, 1st woman policeman with arresting powers
- Maria Stewart, African-American Activist
- Lucy Stone
- Henrietta Szold
- Mary Burnett Talbert
- Maria Tallchief
- Emma Tanayuca
- Valentina Tereshkova (1st Female Space Traveler)
- Mary Church Terrell
- Sonny Terry
- Jim Thorpe
- Benjamin Tillman
- Leon Trotsky
- Sojourner Truth
- George Tucker
- Alan Turing
- Dorothy Vaughn
- Bernhard von Bülow
- Lillian Wald
- George Wallace
- Judge Waties Waring
- Booker T. Washington
- Martha Washington
- Daniel Webster
- Ida B. Wells
- Eli Whitney
- Elie Wiesel
- Oscar Wilde
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt
- Robert F. Williams, Civil Rights Activist
- Roger Williams
- James Wilson
- William Wirt
- John Witherspoon
- Victoria Woodhull
- Granville Woods
- Jonathan J. Wright
- Richard Wright
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- George Wythe
Book Reviews (not otherwise indexed by subject matter)
- 50 Things You Should Know About American Presidents
- Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age by Robert D. Kaplan
- The Allure of Battle: How Wars Have Been Won and Lost by Cathal J. Nolan
- American Kompromat
- The American Plate: Culinary History in 100 Bites
- The American Vice Presidency
- A New Birth of Freedom by Charles L. Black, Jr.
- Antitrust by Amy Klobuchar
- Awesome America
- The Balkans by Mark Mazower
- Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History
- Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod
- Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- Bureau of Spies: The Secret Connections Between Espionage and Journalism in Washington
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Catherine the Great
- Cattle Kingdom
- Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician
- The Cold War: A New History
- Cultures of War
- Danubia
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Dead Wake: The Sinking of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
- Directorate S: The CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
- The Divider by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
- Doing Justice by Preet Bahara
- Duty: Memoir of Robert Gates, Secretary of War
- Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic 1910-1913
- Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World
- The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
- Extraordinary Rendition
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan
- Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
- Germania by Simon Winder
- The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan
- The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
- Heirs of the Founders: Henry Clay, John Calhoun, & Daniel Webster
- High-Risers: Cabrini Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Holy War – re Vasco de Gama’s explorations
- The Hot War: Bombs Away
- The House Girl
- How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
- The Immortal Irishman
- The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
- In the Hurricane’s Eye
- Killing the Black Body
- King Leopold’s Ghost
- The Last Full Measure: How Soldiers Die in Battle
- Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to The Practice
- Liberty’s Blueprint by Michael Meyerson
- Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
- Lotharingia by Simon Winder
- Louisa: The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. [John Quincy] Adams
- Madre: Perilous Journeys With a Spanish Noun
- Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power
- My Country Tis of Thee
- A Needle in the Right Hand of God – The Norman Conquest of 1066 & The Bayeux Tapestry
- Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
- A New Birth of Freedom
- New American Haggadah
- On Desperate Ground: The Marines at the Reservoir by Hampton Sides
- Operation Greylord (on corruption in the court system in Chicago)
- Over the Edge of the World (re Magellan)
- The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German Jewish Epoch from 1743-1933 by Amos Elan
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
- Pox: An American History
- The Racketeer by John Grisham
- The Rhine by Ben Coates
- Rough Crossings
- The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History by James J. O’Donnell
- Rutherford B. – Who Was He? Poems About the Presidents
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- The Second Amendment: A Biography
- The Second Founding by Eric Foner
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq by Christina Asquith
- The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham
- SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
- Stealing the General by Russell S. Bonds
- Stress Test
- Symphony for the City of the Dead
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
- Trespassers on the Roof of the World
- The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
- War Made New by Max Boot
- Waterloo
- What’s the Big Deal About Elections?
- When America Stopped Being Great by Nick Bryant
- The Winter Army: The WWII Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division by Maurice Isserman
Britain (see Great Britain, and Churchill)
Canada
- Battle of Plains of Abraham
- Canadian Independence
- Historical Debates of the Canadian Parliament
- Jefferson Writes of Conquering Canada
- Province of Quebec Divided Up by Britain
Churchill, Winston
- Churchill Made 1st Honorary US Citizen
- Churchill Takes Over as Prime Minister in 1940
- Churchill – “Never Despair”
- Churchill – “Never Give In”
- Churchill – “Victory at All Costs”
- Churchill – “We Shall Never Surrender”
- Churchill’s Address to Joint Session of U.S. Congress
- Churchill’s Eulogy for Neville Chamberlain
- Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
- Churchill’s Shadow by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
- Criticism of Neville Chamberlain’s Appeasement Policy toward Hitler
- Franklin and Winston
- Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
- Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War by Lewis E. Lehrman
- Prohibition Exemption When Visiting US
- The Splendid and the Vile (Churchill during the Blitz) by Erik Larson
- WWII Conference in Casablanca
Civil Rights (see also, Martin Luther King, Jr., Racism, Rosa Parks in Biography)
- 28 Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles Smith, Jr.
- Affirmative Action – Justification by Thurgood Marshall
- African-American Woman Invited to White House Tea
- Amusement Park Demonstration in Maryland
- Anarchy Engulfs New Orleans over Civil Rights During Reconstruction
- Attack on Freedom Riders
- Attorney Edward Dudley
- Black Peaceful Protestor Shot & Killed by Police in Alabama
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama
- Bombing of Alabama Church that killed four little girls
- Bombing of Alabama Church – speech by Civil Rights Lawyer Charles Morgan, Jr.
- Bombing of Home of Civil Rights Worker Vernon Dahmer
- Booker T. Washington Is Invited To Dine At The White House
- Bus Boycott in NYC & Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Charlotte Brown Challenges Racial Segregation on Streetcars
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Civil Rights Murders in Mississippi
- Civil Rights Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore
- Septima Clark, “Grandmother” of the Civil Rights Movement
- Coltrane Records “Alabama” in Reaction to Church Bombing
- Congress Overrides Pres. Andrew Johnson’s Veto of 1866 Civil Rights Bill
- Costigan-Warner Anti-Lynching Bill
- Deaths of Rosa Parks & Jackie Robinson
- First African-American General in U.S. Army
- First African-American Seated in the U.S. Senate
- First African-American on a State Supreme Court
- First African-American Nominated for a Federal Judgeship
- First National Meeting of Blacks
- Granddaddy’s Turn (re voting rights)
- The Green Book
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Harassment of Black Voters in Mississippi in 1964
- Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line in Baseball
- Jackie Robinson Refuses to Move to the Back of the Bus
- James Meredith Enrolls at U. Miss.
- Julius Chambers – Civil Rights Leader and Educator
- Little Rock Integration
- Lunch Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi
- Lunch Counter Sit-in in Wichita, Kansas
- March on Washington
- Massacre of Black Protestors in Orangeburg, SC
- Mississippi Church Bombing
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Murder of Activist Lamar Smith in Mississippi to Deter Black Voting
- Murder of Army Vet Lemeul Penn for Driving While Black
- National Negro Labor Council
- NAACP Founded
- The Port Chicago Disaster in WWII & Fight for Civil Rights for African American Soldiers
- Protest at the Alexandria, Virginia Library
- Quadruple Lynching in 1946
- The Rock and the River (re pacifism of MLK,Jr. versus urgency of Black Panthers)
- Selma, Alabama Attack on Civil Rights Protesters
- Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
- Sit-in at the Montgomery, AL Courthouse
- South Carolina forced to open all-white primary to blacks
- Spingarn Medal Established by NAACP
- Truman and Civil Rights
- White Civil Rights Worker Murdered in Alabama
- White Mob Beats Black Legislator in Georgia
- Robert F. Williams, Civil Rights Activist
Civil War (also see separate entries for Grant, Lincoln, and Sherman, and also John Brown in Biography)
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
- African American Regiment 54th Massachusetts
- Antietam – Discovery of Confederate Plans
- Attack on Fort Sumter
- Battle of Petersburg
- Battle of Poison Springs & Massacre of Black Union Soldiers
- Battle of Shiloh
- Candy for the Troops
- Chain of Thunder (re siege of Vicksburg)
- The Civil War in 50 Objects
- Confederacy Approves of Recruitment of Black Soldiers
- Confederate Constitution Adopted by Seven States
- Confederate Mob Attacks U.S. Soldiers in Baltimore
- Confiscation Acts (of slaves) during Civil War
- Conscription Act
- Davis, Jefferson
- A Disease in the Public Mind by Thomas Fleming
- Dix-Hill Prisoner Exchange Agreement
- Ebenezer Creek Massacre
- Enemy Women
- The Fateful Lightning (re Sherman’s March to the Sea)
- Fremont Issues Emancipation for Missouri; Lincoln Rescinds It
- Gettysburg
- Gettysburg by Allen C. Guelzo
- Gettysburg – Interactive Map
- Pickett’s Charge
- The Great Locomotive Chase
- Hooker Named to Command Army of the Potomac
- Jackson, Stonewall
- Last Engagement of the Civil War
- Lincoln Issues An Amnesty Proclamation
- Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- Massacre at Fort Pillow
- New York Seventh Infantry Saves the Day
- President Lincoln Asks Grant to “Press the Thing”
- Saltville, Virginia Massacre of Black Soldiers
- Sheridan Inspires His Men in Winchester, VA
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- U.S. Issues Code of Conduct for War
Cold War
- The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan
- The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War by H.W. Brands
- Truman’s Cold War Policy
Communism (outside the U.S.) and USSR and Post-Communist Russia Generally (see also Atomic Weapons and American Communism)
- 1917: Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the Year that Created the Modern Age by Arthur Herman
- Assassination Attempt on Vladimir Lenin
- Border Closed Between East and West Berlin
- Catherine the Great
- Chelyabinsk Russia is Hit by a Large Meteor
- Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
- Communist Party in Czechoslovakia Resigns
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- End of Siege of Leningrad
- Express Elizabeth Orders Expulsion of Jews from Russia
- Andrei Gromyko
- History of Soviet Union through Lens of Food
- Iron Curtain by Anne Applebaum
- Mikhail Kalashnikov and AK-47
- State Department Official George F. Kennan on Soviet Policy
- Khrushchev Delivers His Secret Speech About Stalin
- Lenin Issues Appeal for A Revolt
- Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- Night of the Murdered Poets – Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Campaign
- Russia: A New History by Abraham Ascher
- The Russian Revolution: A New History by Sean McMeekin
- Siege of Leningrad
- Soviet Union Attacks Finland During WWII
- Sputnik is Launched
- Joseph Stalin
- Stalin Orders the Great Purge
- Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII by Sean McMeekin
- Leon Trotsky
- Truman Declares State of Emergency Over Communist Threat
- Tsar Alexis Bans Foreign Haircuts
- USSR First Successful Launch of an ICBM
- USSR and China End 30-Year Rift
- USSR Created
- Warsaw Pact
Douglass, Frederick
- Attacked in Indiana at Anti-Slavery Speech
- Frederick Douglass – Autobiography
- Frederick Douglass – Birth
- Frederick Douglass – Escape from Slavery
- Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of The Fourth of July for Slaves
- Frederick Douglass on the Weight of Prejudice on Blacks
- Lecture on Pictures
- Letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman
- On Women’s Rights
- Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography
Economics (see Poverty and Economics)
Education (see also, Civil Rights and Racism)
- Achievement Gap Between Richest and Poorest Students
- Brown v. Board of Ed.
- Brown v. Board of Ed.- SCOTUS Wrangling Behind the Decision
- Brown v. Board of Ed. – Over Sixty Years Later
- Brown v. Board of Ed. – Troops Sent to Enforce the Decision
- Current Barriers to School Integration
- De Facto vs. De Jure Segregation in Schools
- Education Initiatives in Harlem
- Geoffrey Canada & Education Reform
- Historians Adopt Resolutions to Aid Development of Patriotism in Education
- Jefferson on Relationship Between Ignorance and Support of Despotism
- Low-income Students
- National Board Established During WWI for History Education
- New York Whites Protest School Integration
- Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit
- Pres. Grant Advocates Universal Education Divorced from Religion
- Segregation of Japanese Students Ordered in California
- Southern Manifesto Denouncing Brown v. Board of Ed.
- Stonewall Jackson’s Black Sunday School
- Teacher’s Strike in Brooklyn in 1968
- Texas Law and Textbooks
- Texas Votes Against Fact-Checking Children’s History Books
- Tuskegee Institute Established to Education “Colored Teachers”
- Virginia Law and Textbooks
- Landmark case on School Segregation – Westminster School District v. Mendez
First Ladies
- Louisa Johnson Adams
- Lou Hoover
- Rebecca Lane Johnston
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Melania Trump
- Martha Washington
Founding Fathers (see American Revolution, individual entries for Washington, Hamilton & entries in Biography for George Mason and Benjamin Franklin)
France
- Allied Invasion of Normandy, France
- Battle of Agincourt
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Beaumarchais and French Aid for American Revolution
- British Defeat French in Quebec
- Charles VI
- Concordat between Napoleon and Catholic Church in France
- Execution of Robespierre
- First Atomic Bomb Tested
- France – Last Execution by Guillotine
- Napoleonic Code
- Treaties Signed Between America and France
- Wilson Arrives in France After WWI
Grant, Ulysses S. (see also Civil War)
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
- Advocates Universal Education Divorced from Religion
- American Ulysses by Ronald C. White
- Death
- Grant Becomes First Four-Star General in U.S. History
- Grant and the Battle of Petersburg
- Grant Elected President
- Grant’s Final Victory by Charles Bracelen Flood
- Grant’s Second Inauguration
- Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Meet at City Point, Virginia
- Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- Lincoln Telegraphs Grant to “Press the Thing”
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
- Praises 15th Amendment
- Suspends Habeas Corpus
- Tried by War: Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief by James McPherson
Great Britain (see also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland, and Churchill)
- 50 Things You Should Know About the Tudors
- Battle of Agincourt
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Brexit
- Britain’s Three Main Enemies
- British Defeat French at Quebec
- British Royal Air Force Founded
- British Slavery Abolition Act
- Charles II and Restoration of Monarchy
- Constitutional Act Divides Province of Quebec
- Oliver Cromwell Becomes Lord Protector
- First British Nuclear Test
- Great Britain’s First Reigning Monarchs to Set Foot on American Soil
- Great Fire of London
- House of Windsor is selected as Royal House Name to Replace the Germanic name
- India Act Extends British Control Over India
- King Charles II Bans Coffee Houses as Places to Spread Fake News
- Magna Carta – 800th Anniversary
- Thomas More Beheaded
- Nelson’s Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World
- Parliament Passes Statute of Westminster Ending British Empire
- Peterloo Massacre of Protestors for Reform by British Army in Manchester, England
- Queen Elizabeth II Coronation
- Queen Victoria
- Repeal of Law Against Religious NonConformity in Universities
- Repeal of Royal Marriages Act
- “Rivers of Blood” Speech Against Immigration by Enoch Powell
- Slavery found unsupported by Common Law
- Slavery Officially Abolished in Most of the British Empire
- Margaret Thatcher Resigns
- Trevelyan Shuts Down Irish Famine Relief
- Alan Turing
- Some Women Over Age 30 Granted the Vote
- WWII Enemy Internment in Great Britain
Guns
Hamilton, Alexander (see also American Revolution)
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Alexander Hamilton Anticipates Trump
- Birth Date
- Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America by Thomas Fleming
- Hamilton on Jefferson’s Character
- Hamilton on Jefferson’s Fangs
- Hamilton on George Washington’s Importance
- Hamilton on how George Washington Should Entertain in the White House
- Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged A Nation
- Sets Out Washington’s Rules for Neutrality
History, Generally
- 9/11 Tributes
- American Alcohol Consumption Before Prohibition
- Annexation of Mexican Territory by U.S. Advocated
- Anti-Communist “Palmer” Raids
- Armenian Genocide
- Attack on Gays in New Orleans, Louisiana
- American Independence Day – July 2 or July 4?
- Bangladesh Genocide
- Battles of Agincourt, Balaclava, Leyte Gulf, Grenada on Same Day in History
- Battle of New Orleans
- Berlin Conference of 1885 on Disposition of African States
- Bismarck
- Blackhawk Down in Somalia
- Bombing of Guernica in Spain
- Boston Tea Party
- Buttonwood Agreement Marks Beginning of NY Stock Exchange
- Candy and the Military
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- CIA and Special Covert Ops Group
- Coast Guard is Established
- Columbus Spots Land in the Americas
- Common Sense is Published in the Colonies
- Computer “Bugs” Named
- Construction of the National Cathedral
- Corfu Declaration and Formation of Yugoslavia
- Deadliest Industrial Accident in US History
- Defense Intelligence Agency Established
- Department of Agriculture Established
- Dogs of War
- Dropping the Ball on New Year’s Eve
- Ellis Island Closes Down
- Energy Power
- Explosion of the Battleship Maine in Havana
- Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger
- Fall of the Berlin Wall
- Fascism, Per Historian George Mosse
- FBI is Established
- Finland Independence Day
- First African-American to Address US House of Representatives
- First African-American Attorney Admitted to Argue Before Supreme Court
- First African-American Woman Appointed to Federal Bench
- First African-American Woman Appointed to Judicial Office
- First American Post Office
- First Automobile Speeding Law in America
- First Cabinet Meeting
- First Continental Congress
- FIrst Convening of Congress Pursuant to 20th Amendment
- First Earth Day
- First Federal Court Session
- First Gold Record, for Chattanooga Choo Choo
- First Human Flight
- First Impeachment Voted by US Congress
- First Issue of Black Newspaper Chicago Defender
- First Mobile Phone Call
- First Moon Landing
- First Paper Money in the American Colonies
- First Parking Meter
- First Peacetime Draft in U.S. History
- First Peacetime Draft Selection
- First Public Performance of My Country Tis of Thee
- First Public Proclamation of American Independence
- First Sanctioned Monopoly in America
- First State Dog Licensing Law
- First Surgeon’s General Report Linking Smoking and Health
- First Televised Political Convention
- First Televised Presidential Debate
- First Torpedo Boat
- First Transcontinental Telegraph Message
- First U.S. Destroyer Lost to Enemy Action
- First Voyage to North Pole by Nuclear-Powered Sub
- First Wartime Conscription Act in U.S.
- First World’s Fair
- Founding of Grange Lobbying Organization for Farmers
- Fox News
- Gun Violence and Youth
- Hindenburg Disaster
- History of Cheesemaking
- History of Coffee
- History of Ice Cream and Founding Fathers
- History of Pizza
- Howard University
- In God We Trust Approved for Coins
- Internment of Refugees and Keeping Track of Families
- Iranian Revolution
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Know-Nothing Convention in Philadelphia
- League of Nations Officially Disbanded
- Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Library of Congress
- Louisiana Purchase
- Melting Pot Opens on Broadway
- The Mexican-American War & The Conquest of the American Continent
- Mount Rushmore
- Myth of “Rags to Riches”
- NASA Established
- Nation’s Capital Officially Named Washington
- National Science Foundation Created
- Nauru becomes Independent Nation
- Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant
- Northwest Ordinance Passed
- Oregon Treaty Signed Between U.S. and Great Britain
- Pentagon Groundbreaking
- The Pig War
- Plane Crashes into the Potomac River</li>
- Political Protests in the Seventies
- Pope Abolishes Prohibited Books List
- Presidential Dogs
- Republican Party is Founded
- Rwandan Genocide
- Sandoz Chemical Spill
- Senate Moves to Temporary Emergency Quarters
- Shays’ Rebellion
- Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Spain’s Monarchy Agrees to Finance Columbus’s Trip to America
- Spingarn Medal Established by NAACP
- Star Spangled Banner
- Statue of Liberty
- Stock Market Crash
- Swiss Women Get Right to Vote
- Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon
- Thanksgiving Proclaimed
- Top American Speeches of the Twentieth Century
- Treaties Signed Between America and France
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Treaty of Paris
- Treaty with Spain
- “United States” Replaces “United Colonies”
- U.S. Accidentally Shoots Down Commercial Iranian Flight
- U.S. Army Created
- U.S. Navy Created
- Veterans Day and the Dogs of War
- Volcano in Iceland Changes History
- West German Spy Defects to East Germany
- Whiskey Tax Rebellion
- X,Y,Z Affair
- X,Y,Z Papers
History & Memory
- American History over Time
- American Revolution and its Legacy over Time
- Myth and Memory and George Washington
- World War I and its Legacy in the Twentieth Century
Holocaust (see Antisemitism and the Holocaust)
Immigration, Generally (see also, Racism Against Asians)
- Anti-immigrant Know-Nothing Convention in Philadelphia
- FDR Speech to DAR re Immigrants
- First Naturalization Act in US
- Immigration Restriction in Australia
- Internment of Refugees and Keeping Track of Families
- Lincoln Decries Anti-Immigration Stance of Know-Nothings
- US Naturalization Process Transferred to Federal Courts
- Walter Mondale on Indochinese Refugees
Imprisonment (see Prisons)
International, Generally (see also, Great Britain, Ireland, Korea, Middle East, and USSR)
- Algerian War – Peace Agreement
- Antarctic Treaty Signed
- Armenian Genocide (in Turkey)
- Belgium Proclaims Independence
- Brazil Declares Itself a Federal Republic
- China
- Dominican Republic Declares Sovereignty
- Germany – Review of Danubia
- Iceland
- Ivory Coast
- Japan – Tokyo Sarin Attack
- Nepal
- Norway Constitution Signed
- Panama Canal
- Puerto Rico
- Somalia
- Swaziland Becomes eSwatini
- Sweden Abolishes Capital Punishment
- Turkey – Republic Proclaimed
- Uganda’s First Public Gay Pride Parade
Ireland
- Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist
- Great Famine of Ireland
- The Immortal Irishman
- Ireland Leaves the Commonwealth of Great Britain
- Ireland Mistakenly Notes Election of First “Black” President
- Irish Civil War Ceasefire
- Irish Famine
- Irish Nationalists Declare Independence
- Irish Question by Lawrence J. McCaffrey
- Patrick Pearse Stirring Funeral Oration: Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace
- Potato Blight Discovered and Onset of Famine
- A Short History of Ireland: 1500-2000 by John Gibney
Israel (see Middle East)
Jefferson, Thomas
- Argues for Expansion of Slavery Westward
- The Art of Power by Jon Meacham
- Calls the Constitution a Felo de Se
- Congress Authorizes Purchase of Jefferson’s Library for Library of Congress
- Conquering Canada
- Constitutions Should Expire After 19 Years
- Crushing Monied Corporations
- Dedication of Jefferson Memorial
- Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America; Jefferson’s Role by Thomas Fleming
- Encomium to Jefferson by Lincoln
- Fondness for Ice Cream
- Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
- The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation
- Hamilton on Jefferson’s Character
- Hamilton on Jefferson’s Fangs
- The Hemingses of Monticello
- Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming
- Jefferson by Maira Kalman
- Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged A Nation by John Ferling
- Jefferson and Ice Cream
- Jefferson Leaves Paris for 3-Month Tour of Europe
- Jefferson’s Library
- Jefferson and the Library of Congress
- Jefferson on America’s “Manifest Destiny” without “Blot and Mixtures” of Native Americans
- Jefferson on Original Intent
- Jefferson’s Pillow by Roger Wilkins
- Jefferson on Pitiable White Slave Owners
- Jefferson on Relationship Between Ignorance and Support of Despotism
- Jefferson on Separation of Church and State
- Jefferson on the Slow Road to Liberty
- Jefferson’s Recipe for Ice Cream
- John Marshall on Jefferson and Burr as Presidential Candidates
- Madison Urges Jefferson to Consider Using the Federalist at Univ of Va. as a Legal Text
- Objects to Supreme Court Hegemony
- On Intelligence of Blacks
- On Liberty’s Natural Manure
- On Patrick Henry
- On the Rule of Law
- On Value of Slave “Crop”
- Strategy for Barbary Coast
- Washington Writes Jefferson About First Torpedo Boat
Johnson, Lyndon
- Johnson Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Johnson Signs the Equal Opportunity Act to Combat Poverty
- Johnson Signs the National Trails Systems Act
- Johnson Speaks Out for Gun Control
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Passage to Power
- President Johnson Opts Not to Seek Reelection
- Speech at Gettysburg in 1963
King, Jr., Martin Luther (see also Civil Rights)
- Advocates a Revolution in Values
- Arrested at Sit-In in Atlanta, Georgia
- Assassination
- Assassination & Response by Robert F. Kennedy
- Awarded Nobel Prize
- Birth
- Black Bus Boycott in Alabama
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- Electronic Resources
- Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides re Assassination
- Home Bombed
- I Have A Dream Speech
- Last Day
- Last Speech
- Legacy
- Legislation Approving MLK Day as Official Holiday
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- March on Washington for Jobs
- Marchers Arrive in Montgomery
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Met by Hostile Mob in Chicago
- Morehouse College Collection
- Online Resources
- Suggestions for Bus Integration
- Thoughts on His Own Death
- War on Poverty
- Warning to JFK
- Words of Inspiration
Korea
- Armistice Technically Ends Korean War
- Battle of Chosin Reservoir
- Douglas MacArthur’s Farewell Address to Congress
- Korean Alphabet Day
- Truman and MacArthur on the Brink of Nuclear War
- Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur
Labor
- Adamson Act Enables 8-Hr Days on Interstate Railroads
- Bisbee AZ Deportation of Striking Workers
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Bus Boycott in NYC & Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Child Labor and Chocolate
- Child Labor Laws and Lewis Hine
- Emergency Conservation Work Act Creates CCC
- First Modern Sit-Down Labor Strike – Hormel Meat Packers
- Samuel Gompers and White Supremacy
- Great Hawaii Sugar Strike: Rice and Roses
- Haymarket Square Bombing in Chicago
- Health and Human Rights Online Database
- International Longshore and Warehouse Union
- Labor Activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Labor Activist Clara Lemlich
- Labor Activist Lucy Parsons
- Labor Activist Emma Tanayuca
- Labor Protest in Chicago, Illinois
- Martin Van Buren Establishes 10-Hr Workday
- Miners’ Riot in Virden, Illinois for Eight Hour Workday
- National Negro Labor Council
- Philadelphia White Workers Strike Over Promotion of Black Workers
- Radium Girls
- Reagan Fires Striking Air Traffic Controllers
- Shirtwaist Makers Strike
- Taft-Hartley Act Passed
- Teacher’s Strike in Brooklyn in 1968
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Women Fired for Dancing on their Break
Laws Online
- Abortion Laws
- Corruption Perceptions Index: Interactive Map
- Founding Fathers Documents Database
- Free Law on the Web
- Gun Laws and Gun Fatalities: Interactive Map
- Health and Human Rights Laws
- Historical Debates of the Canadian Parliament
- Marijuana Laws
- Scotch Whisky Laws
- Voting Laws Roundup 2016
- Women’s Reproductive Rights
Legal, Generally
- Age Discrimination Employment Act
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Bush v. Gore Election
- Children in Poverty
- CIA Advocates Ability to Wage Covert Ops
- Clayton Antitrust Act Signed into Law
- The Comstock Law
- Congress Abolishes Flogging by the Navy
- Congress Passes the War Powers Act
- Congress Recognizes Pledge of Allegiance
- Congressional Research Service Reports
- Corporate Tax Evaders
- DOJ Declines to Defend Defense of Marriage Act
- Equal Opportunity Act
- European Union Treaty
- Robert Cover on Rule of Law
- Ethnicity as a Legal Construct
- EU Regulation of Coumarin
- Executive Orders – Links to Resources
- First of the Federalist Papers is Published
- First African-American on a State Supreme Court
- First Bound Volume of the Federalist Papers
- First Class Action Lawsuit Against US Govt
- First Federal Park Land Protection Law
- First Female Lawyer on the West Coast
- First General Copyright Law in American Colonies
- First Legal Code in North America
- First Murder Conviction from Animal DNA
- First Naturalization Act in US
- First Patent for Genetically Engineered Life Form
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty
- Gerrymandering
- Historians Adopt Resolutions to Aid Development of Patriotism in Education
- Inauguration Day
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover Ruled Not Pornographic
- How to Pronounce “Lawyer”
- The Jay Treaty
- Judiciary Act Signed Into Law
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty Ratification
- National Trails Systems Act
- Presidential Succession Act
- NAFTA Signed into Law
- Napoleonic Code
- The Rule of Law
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Scorpions (re Supreme Court)
- Signing of the Constitution
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
- State Nullification
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Taxation and the Common Good
- Teaching Science Violates Religious Freedom?
- Theorists, Influential Legal
- Theory of Absolute Sovereignty over U.S. Water Rights
- The Trial of Socrates
- US Naturalization Process Transferred to Federal Courts
- U.S. Senate Alters Filibuster Rules
- Voter Identification Laws and the Transgender Population
- Watergate Break-In
Lincoln, Abraham
- 1858: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the War They Failed to See by Bruce Chadwick
- 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History by Charles Bracelen Flood
- The Almanac Trial
- Assassination
- Assassination – Thomas Corbett Arrested for Killing John Wilkes Booth
- Career as a Lawyer
- A Child’s-Eye-View of Lincoln
- Claims Morality Should Trump Idea of Judicial Supremacy
- Cooper Union
- Criticism of Fake News over Cause of Mexican-American War
- Death
- Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
- Elected President
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Encomium to Jefferson by Lincoln
- Ends Slavery in D.C.
- Establishes US Dept of Agriculture
- Explains his exclusions from the Emancipation Proclamation
- Fashion Advice from an 11-Year-Old Girl
- The Fiery Trial: Lincoln and American Slavery
- First Inaugural Address
- First Lincoln Douglas Debate
- First Presidential Election
- Fremont Issues Emancipation for Missouri; Lincoln Rescinds It
- Gettysburg Address
- The Great Comeback: How Lincoln Beat the Odds to Win the 1860 Republican Nomination
- An Honest Calling: The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln
- House Divided Speech
- Ireland Mistakenly Notes Election of First “Black” President
- Judge Pro Tem
- Largest Execution in U.S. History – Mass Hanging of Native Americans Mitigated by Lincoln’s Clemency
- Last Public Address
- Law Practice
- Lincoln and His Admirals
- Lincoln and Churchill: Statesmen at War by Lewis E. Lehrman
- Lincoln and Constitutional issues
- Lincoln and Meaning of Declaration of Independence
- Lincoln Asks the Band to Play Dixie
- Lincoln Bible
- Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
- Lincoln Decries Anti-Immigration Stance of Know-Nothings
- Lincoln’s Descendants
- Lincoln and Dueling
- Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Meet at City Point, Virginia
- Lincoln and Macbeth
- Lincoln at Peoria
- Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
- Lincoln in the World
- Lincoln and Popularity
- Lincoln Bids Farewell to Springfield for the Last Time
- Lincoln Destroys Idea of “Magical Omnipotence” of States Rights
- Lincoln Issues An Amnesty Proclamation
- Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation
- Lincoln’s Body Lies in State in Springfield, Illinois
- Lincoln’s Legacy
- Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- Lincoln’s Notes – Review of Lincoln in Private by Ronald C. White
- Lincoln’s Patent
- Lincoln’s Position on Slavery
- Looking at Lincoln
- Melville Petitions Lincoln for a Sinecure
- President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
- Republicans Nominate Lincoln for the Presidency
- Refuses to Renege on Promise of Liberty for *All*
- Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
- Second Annual Message to Congress
- Speech at Peoria
- Telegraphs Grant to “Press the Thing”
- Thanksgiving Proclaimed
- Tried by War: Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
- Use of the Telegraph
Media
- Frederick Douglass Speech on Powerful Influence of Photographs on Ideas and Preconceptions
- Gone With the Wind Book Published
- Racist Impact of “Birth of a Nation”
- Racist Impact of “Gone With the Wind”
- Lawrence Dunbar Reddick’s Pathbreaking Studies of Black Stereotypes in Media
- Media and Racism
- Media and WWI
- Noise Wars
- Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography (Importance of Visual Media)
- The Power of Images
- Reputable Media Fact Checker Sites
- Spiro Agnew on the Power of News Media to Shape Debate
Mexico
- Mexicans Repulse French on Cinco de Mayo
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty
- Leon Trotsky Assassinated in Mexico
- Lincoln Criticizes Fake News over Cause of Mexican-American War
- The Mexican-American War & The Conquest of the American Continent
- Mexico Has Three Presidents in One Day
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ending Mexican-American War
- Zapata – Assassination
Middle East (see also entry for World War I)
- America’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew Bacevich
- Assassination of Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin
- Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower’s Campaign for Peace by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East by Eugene Rogan
- Founding of Hadassah by Henrietta Szold
- Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and The Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict by John B. Judis
- The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
- Israel Builds a Navy
- Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly & The Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
- Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenrich
- My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel by Ari Shavit
- The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Sean McMeekin
- Palestine Partitioned by the U.N.
- A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin
- Power, Faith, & Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 – Present by Michael B. Oren
- Terrorist Bombing in Jerusalem by Irgun Party
- Truman and the Middle East
Native Americans
- Alabama Restricts Rights of Native Tribes
- Andrew Jackson – Happy to Announce Indian Removal
- Andrew Jackson Signs the Indian Removal Act
- Beecher v. Wetherby
- Brotherton Indians
- Carlisle Indian School
- Crazy Horse
- Custer Massacres Peaceful Cheyenne
- Fetterman Massacre
- First Native American Newspaper
- George Washington Advocates Peaceful Resolution of Indian Affairs
- George Washington & Native American Policy
- Geronimo
- I Am Not A Number re Mistreatment of Native Canadian Children
- Indian Citizenship Act & Native American Voting Rights
- Jefferson on America’s “Manifest Destiny” without “Blot and Mixtures” of Native Americans
- Kicking Bear
- Largest Execution in U.S. History – Mass Hanging of Native Americans
- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
- Jeremiah Evarts on Cherokee Rights
- Johnson v. M’intosh
- Manifest Destiny
- Wilma Mankiller – 1st Female Chief of Cherokee Nation
- Native American Land Appropriation
- Native American Voting Rights
- Pequot Massacres by the Puritans
- Piegan Blackfeet Indian Massacre in Montana by U.S. Cavalry
- Red Cloud
- Sand Creek Massacre
- Spain Passes 1542 Law for “Good Treatment” of Native Americans
- Maria Tallchief
- Thanksgiving (History)
- Jim Thorpe
- Treaty of Fort Laramie Granting Sioux the Black Hills
- Worcester v. Georgia
Poverty and Economics
- Achievement Gap Between Richest and Poorest Students
- Children in Poverty
- Clinton’s Welfare Reform
- Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
- Demographics of Poverty
- Inequality of Wealth per Karl Marx
- Johnson Signs the Equal Opportunity Act to Combat Poverty
- Low-income Students
- Stress Test
Prejudice – See Racism
Presidents of the United States
- Adams, John
- Adams, John Quincy
- Arthur, Chester A.
- Buchanan, James
- Bush, George H.W.
- Bush, George W.
- Carter, Jimmy
- Cleveland, Grover
- Clinton, William J.
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Eisenhower, Dwight David
- Blood and Sand: Suez, Hungary, and Eisenhower’s Campaign for Peace by Alex von Tunzelmann
- Eisenhower: 1956 by David A. Nichols
- Eisenhower Apologizes for Racism to Ghana’s Finance Minister
- Eisenhower Disciplines General George Patton
- Eisenhower Enforces Little Rock Integration
- Eisenhower Establishes NASA
- Eisenhower Nominated for President
- Eisenhower and the Pledge of Allegiance
- Eisenhower Requisitions Coca-Cola Bottling Plants During WWII
- Eisenhower Severs Diplomatic Ties With Cuba
- Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton
- Eisenhower Warns of a Communist Domino Effect
- Eisenhower Warns of a Military-Industrial Complex
- Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace Speech
- Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda
- Ike’s Bluff by Evan Thomas
- Fillmore, Millard
- Ford, Gerald R.
- Garfield, James
- Grant (see separate entry)
- Harding, Warren G.
- Harrison, Benjamin
- Harrison, William Henry
- Hayes, Rutherford B.
- Hoover, Herbert
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jefferson (see separate entry)
- Johnson, Lyndon (see separate entry)
- Johnson, Andrew
- Kennedy, John
- Addresses the Nation about Cuban Missile Crisis
- Addresses the nation about racism
- Algerian Independence – Advocacy of
- Biography
- First Catholic President Attends Mass
- First Televised Presidential Debate
- Ich Bin Ein Berliner Speech
- Kennedy Uses Fear of Missile Gap to Help Win Election
- PT Boat Accident
- Takes Sole Responsibility for Bay of Pigs Fiasco
- Lincoln (see separate entry)
- Madison, James
- McKinley, William – Assassination
- Monroe, James
- Richard Nixon
- Congress passes War Powers Act over Nixon’s veto
- First Televised Presidential Debate
- Granted Pardon by Gerald Ford
- Nixon Tells the Press They Won’t Have Him To Kick Around Anymore
- Resignation
- Saturday Night Massacre
- Signs 1st Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- Three Articles of Impeachment
- Vetoes Childcare Funding Bill
- Watergate Break In
- Obama, Barack
- Pierce, Franklin
- Polk, James K.
- Ronald Reagan
- Reagan Acknowledges Arms to Nicaragua
- Reagan Authorizes MLK,Jr. Day as a Federal Holiday
- Reagan Debates Carter
- Reagan Decries Soviet Evil Empire
- Reagan Exhorts Gorbachev to “Tear Down This Wall” between East and West Berlin
- Reagan Fires Striking Air Traffic Controllers
- Reagan Pledges Support for British Efforts to Reclaim Falklands
- Reagan Signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Authorizing Reparations to Japanese-Americans
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Attempted Assassination
- Birthdate
- Civil Works Administration Unveiled
- Coup Plot Against Roosevelt by Business Community
- Emergency Conservation Work Act
- Faith in Americans’ Resistance to Fake News
- FDR Hosts Churchill at White House for WWII Confab
- FDR (Re)Legalizes Sale of Beer & Wine
- FDR Receives Detailed Info about the Holocaust in 1942
- Fireside Chats
- Four Freedoms Announced
- Franklin and Winston
- Lend-Lease Bill
- Plot to Mount a Coup Against Roosevelt
- Speech to DAR re Immigrants
- Supreme Court Packing Plan
- WWII Conference in Casablanca
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Assassination Attempt on his life
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- Calls Journalists “Muckrakers”
- Nomination for President by Bull Moose Party
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Roosevelt on Lynching
- Roosevelt on Trustbusting
- To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Doreen Rappaport
- The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
- Taft, William Howard
- Taylor, Zachary
- Truman, Harry S.
- Birthdate
- Cold War Policy
- Declares State of Emergency over Communist Threat
- Truman and MacArthur
- Truman and the Middle East
- Truman Doctrine
- Truman Fires MacArthur
- Truman Approves the H-Bomb
- Truman Announces the Hydrogen Bomb
- Truman and Civil Rights
- Truman Ends Segregation in U.S. Armed Forces
- Truman Signs the Presidential Succession Act
- Truman on Supporting Freedom Globally
- Taft-Hartley Act Passed Over Truman’s Veto
- Trump, Donald J.
- Alexander Hamilton Anticipates Trump
- American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump by Craig Unger
- Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show by Jonathan Karl
- The Divider by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
- I Alone Can Fix It by Carole Leonnig & Philip Rucker – book review
- True Crimes & Misdemeanors by Jeffrey Toobin – book review
- Trump Claims He is More Popular than Lincoln
- Trump and the Environment
- Trump and Immigration
- Trump and Russian Influence via Mueller Report
- Tyler, John
- Van Buren, Martin
- Washington (see separate entry)
- Wilson, Woodrow
- 1917: Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the Year that Created the Modern Age by Arthur Herman
- Creates National Park Service
- Signs Adamson Act Enabling 8-Hr Days on Interstate Railroads
- Wilson Arrives in France After WWI
- Wilson Administration Institutes Government-Wide Segregation
- Wilson’s Unpopularity in Europe after WWI
Prisons
- Guantanamo
- Incarceration and Inequality
- Mass Incarceration Statistics
- Rasho v. Walker re abuse of mentally ill prisoners in Illinois
- Prison Statistics
- Sexual Abuse in Prisons
Racism Against Asians Generally
- Against Japanese in California
- Arkansas Land Act to Prevent Japanese from Purchasing or Owning Land
- Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Cultures of War
- District Court Reverses Conviction of Korematsu
- (Anti-Asian) Immigrant Act
- Infamy: The Shocking Story of The Japanese-American Internment in WWII
- Japanese Internees Allowed to Return Home</li>
- Japanese Internment and Children
- Japanese Internment and Keeping Track of Families
- Japanese Internment Camp in Arizona
- Media and Racism
- Reagan Signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Authorizing Reparations to Japanese-Americans
- Wyoming Massacre of Chinese Immigrants
Racism Against Blacks Generally
- Alabama Begins Statewide Convict Leasing & Fills Prisons with Blacks
- Alabama Black Man Lynched for Failing to Address White Policeman as Mr.
- Alabama Black Man Murdered for Using a “Whites Only” Bathroom
- Alabama Enacts Constitution to Establish White Supremacy
- Alabama Racists Attack Nat King Cole on Stage
- Ambassador Denied Service at Diner in Maryland
- America is Not for Black People
- America’s Racial Divide
- Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
- Anglo-Saxon Clubs of Virginia
- Assassination of Benjamin Randolph
- Barring Slaves & Free Blacks from the Army
- Black Doll Study
- Black Power Salute at the Olympics
- Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy Tyson
- Boxer Jack Johnson Arrested for Violating the Mann Act
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- Cincinnati, Ohio Race Riots
- Colfax Massacre in Louisiana
- Connecticut Bans Education for Blacks from Out of State
- Discovery of “Disease” Making Blacks Not Want to be Slaves
- Einstein Speaks Out About Racism
- Eisenhower Apologizes for Racism to Ghana’s Finance Minister
- Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner
- Georgia Bans lynching- in Theory
- Gone With the Wind Movie Premier
- Gone With the Wind Book Published
- Government Plutonium Experimentation on Unaware African American Victims
- High-Risers: Cabrini Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Idaho Passes Anti-Miscegenation Law
- Incarceration and Inequality
- The Invisible Line
- Killing the Black Body
- KKK – Creation
- KKK Rally in Chicago
- KKK Rally in D.C.
- KKK Violence Against Blacks in South Carolina
- Lynching of Black WWII Veterans
- March on Washington for Jobs
- Massacre of Blacks in Arkansas by White Supremacists
- Massacre of Blacks in N.C. by White Supremacists
- Massacre of Blacks in Opelousas, Louisiana by White Supremacists
- Media and Racism
- Meeting in Georgia to Revive the KKK
- Mississippi Jury Frees White Men Confessing of Beating Black Man to Death
- Missouri Requires Free Blacks to Get a License to Remain in the State
- New York Whites Protest School Integration
- Oregon Adopts Racist Constitution
- Oregon Bans Blacks from Oregon Territory
- Othello and Racist Reactions
- Philadelphia White Workers Strike Over Promotion of Black Workers
- The Port Chicago Disaster in WWII & Fight for Civil Rights for African American Soldiers
- Post-Slavery Mistreatment of Freed Blacks
- President Harding Exhorts White Alabamians to Allow Blacks to Vote
- President Kennedy addresses the nation about racism
- President Taft Announces Racism in the South is Over
- Race in the Global Era by Clarence Lusane
- Quadruple Lynching in 1946
- Race As A Legal Construct (review of The Invisible Line)
- Race Riot in St. Louis, Missouri
- Race Riot in Tennessee
- Racial Integrity Act Passed by Virginia
- Racist Impact of “Gone With the Wind”
- Reverend George Lee Killed in Mississippi for Helping Blacks to Vote
- Robert F. Kennedy On the Institutional Violence of Racism
- Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns DAR in Protest Over Racism
- Ruth and the Green Book
- Saltville, Virginia Massacre of Black Soldiers During Civil War
- Seneca Park Destroyed to Make Way for Central Park in NYC
- Sentinels of the Republic, White Supremacist Group
- South Africa Bans Mixed-Race Marriages
- South Carolina Enacts the Negro Codes
- Southern Manifesto Opposing School Integration
- Steamboat School
- Studies of Stereotyping of Blacks in Media
- Syphilis Experiments on Poor Blacks
- Theodore Roosevelt on Lynching
- Torture and Murder of Black Man in case of mistaken identity in Alabama
- Truman Ends Segregation in U.S. Armed Forces
- Tulsa Massacre
- Virginia Passes Racial Segregation Law for Public Events
- Virulent White Supremacist Elected Governor of South Carolina
- White Supremacist Victory in Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Woodrow Wilson Administration Institutes Government-Wide Segregation
Racism Generally – Other
(see also Racism Against Asians Generally and Racism Against Blacks Generally)
Religious History
- The American Haggadah
- Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
- Church of Scotland and Travelling Community
- The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason
- Concordat between Napoleon and Catholic Church in France
- The Earth Moves: Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
- Galileo Changes the Course of Religious History
- Galileo’s Mistake
- The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner
- History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book by John Barton
- Holy Bones, Holy Dust: How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe
- Holy War – re Vasco de Gama’s explorations & battle between Islam & Christianity for control of spice trade
- Jesus Before the Gospels
- Lawsuit on Teaching Science and Religious Freedom
- Massachusetts banishes Roger Williams for advocating religious tolerance
- Massachusetts bans celebration of Christmas
- Massachusetts outlaws Quakers
- New American Haggadah
- New Priest in Massachusetts Locked Out of Church for Crime of Being Irish
- Pope Paul VI Absolves Jews of Guilt for Crucifixion
- The Power of Parable: A History of Biblical Parables by John Dominic Crossan
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Split in Episcopal Church over Gay Unions Averted
- Triumph of Christianity by Bart Ehrman
- Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
Revolutionary War (see American Revolution)
Jackie Robinson
- Jackie Robinson – Birth
- Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line in Baseball
- Jackie Robinson – Death
- Jackie Robinson Refuses to Move to the Back of the Bus
- Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson by Sharon Robinson
Russia (see Communism and Post-Communism Russia)
Science
- Niels Bohr
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Rachel Carson
- Jane Colden
- Computer “Bugs” Named
- Marie Curie
- Dark Matter
- Charles Darwin
- Discovery of Virus Causing AIDS
- DNA – Role of Rosalind Franklin
- Albert Einstein
- Explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger
- Richard Feynman
- Rosalind Franklin
- Galileo
- Dorothy Hodgkin 3rd Woman to get Chemistry Nobel
- Matilda Effect
- Lise Meitner
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Isaac Newton
- Nancy Grace Roman
- The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
- Vera Rubin
- Mary Somerville
- Chien-Shiung Wu
Scotland
- Church of Scotland and Travelling Community
- Dog Fouling Act
- Golf and Football Banned in Scotland
- Period Products Made Free for Women
- Scotch Whisky Laws
- Scotland Enters Political Union with England
- Scotland: The Story of a Nation
Sherman, William Tecumseh (see also Civil War and Ulysses S. Grant)
- Birth
- A Chain of Thunder (re Siege of Vicksburg)
- Ebenezer Creek Massacre
- The Fateful Lightning (re Sherman’s March to the Sea)
- Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman
- Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Porter Meet at City Point, Virginia
- Sherman’s Christmas Present to Lincoln
Slavery (see also, Racism Against Blacks, Civil War, and John Brown in Biography)
- Africatown
- All Different Now (re Juneteenth Day) by Angela Johnson
- American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen
- Anti-Slavery Speakers including Frederick Douglass Attacked by Mob in Indiana
- Barbados Rebellion
- Brawl on the Floor of Congress Over Slavery
- British Slavery Abolition Act
- Buchanan Signs Corwin Amendment to Protect Slavery
- Calhoun Claims Slavery is a Positive Good
- Confederate Constitution Adopted to Protect Slavery
- Confiscation Acts (of slaves) during Civil War
- Continuing Influence of Slavery Legacy
- Jefferson Davis on Happy, Docile Slaves
- D.C. Emancipation Act
- Denmark Vesey Hanged
- Discovery of “Disease” Making Blacks Not Want to be Slaves
- Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of The Fourth of July for Slaves
- The Fiery Trial: Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
- First Emancipation Proclamation – 1775
- Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation & Reconstruction by Eric Foner
- Freedom in Congo Square
- William Lloyd Garrison Advocates End of Slavery
- Gateway to Freedom: The History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
- How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
- Jefferson Argues for Expansion of Slavery Westward
- Jefferson on Pitiable White Slave Owners
- John Adams and James Madison on Slavery
- Juneteenth Day
- The Last Survivor of The Last Slave Ship
- The Legal Legacy of Slavery
- Letter from Frederick Douglass to Harriet Tubman
- Lincoln’s Position on Slavery
- Maryland Issues Apology for Role in Slavery
- New York Anti-Slavery Society
- New Jersey Enacts Law for Black “Servitude” for Life
- New Jersey Legislation for Gradual Abolition of Slavery
- Northwest Ordinance Passed with Ban on Slavery Included
- Patrick Henry’s Words About Slavery Censored
- Post-Slavery Mistreatment of Freed Blacks
- Rough Crossings by Simon Schama
- Slave Escape Foiled in D.C.
- Slave Revolt in Jamaica
- Slave Revolt in New Orleans
- The Slaveholding Republic by Don Fehrenbacher
- Slavery Officially Abolished in Most of the British Empire
- Slavery Officially Abolished in Surinam
- Slavery Reparations
- Robert Smalls Makes A Break for Freedom
- Slave Uprising in Louisiana
- Stonewall Jackson’s Black Sunday School
- Nat Turner’s Slavery Rebellion
- Vermont 1st state to abolish slavery
- Virginia Enacts Slave Codes
- Virginia Passes Law Allowing for Killing Slaves “If Provoked”
- Virginia Passes Law that Baptized Slaves are Not Exempt from Slavery
- Washington Offers Reward for Runaway Slaves
- Daniel Webster on Slavery
- Daniel Webster on Slavery vs. Union
- William Seward Speaks Out Against the Fugitive Slave Bill
Sports History (see also Jackie Robinson)
- Hank Aaron Breaks Babe Ruth’s Home Run Record
- Baseball in Japanese Internment Camps
- James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell
- Black Power Salute at the Olympics
- Boxing Match Between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
- Alice Coachman – 1st African-American woman to win gold at Olympics
- Cubs Baseball Game – “Homer in the Gloamin”
- Shani Davis 1st African American to Win Winter Olympic Gold for an Individual Event
- First Legal Sunday Football Games in Pennsylvania
- First Sitting U.S. President to Attend Major League Baseball Game
- Football Game Delays Announcement of Pearl Harbor
- Althea Gibson
- Josh Gibson
- Golf and Football Banned in Scotland
- Jack Johnson
- Effa Manley – 1st Woman Inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Patent for Reusable Golf Tee
- Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Line in Baseball
- Gale Sayers
- Charlie Sifford – 1st African-American in Golf Hall of Fame
- Jim Thorpe
- Babe Zaharias
States (see The United States)
Supreme Court, Generally
- The Brandeis Brief
- Congress Provides for Reports of Supreme Court Decisions
- The Court and the World by Stephen Breyer
- First African-American Supreme Court Law Clerk
- Justices Who Started As Supreme Court Clerks
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
- Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor
- Scorpions
- Supreme Court Revisionism
Supreme Court Decisions
- Amistad Trials
- Baker v. Carr
- Beecher v. Wetherby
- Brown v. Allen
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Boynton v. Virginia
- Bradwell v. The State
- Buck v. Bell
- Bush v. Gore
- Carolene Products v. U.S.
- Cassius Clay, Jr. v. U.S.
- Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- Civil Rights Cases
- Dalehite et al. v. United States
- Debs v. U.S.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty
- Dred Scott
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Ex parte Milligan
- Georgia v. Brailsford
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Guinn v. United States
- Granholm v. Heald
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Henning Jacobson v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Johnson v. M’intosh
- Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver, Colorado
- Korematsu v. United States
- Lambert v. Yellowley
- Lawrence v. Kansas
- Leser v. Garnett
- Lochner v. New York
- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
- Loving v. Virginia
- Marbury v. Madison
- Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
- McCleskey v. Kemp
- Meyer v. Nebraska
- Minor v. Happersett
- Moore v. Dempsey
- Muller v. Oregon
- Natl Federation of Independent Business v. Sebellus (re ACA)
- Near v. Minnesota
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- Nixon v. Herndon
- NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel
- Olmstead v. U.S.
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Prize Cases
- Regents of U. of C. v. Bakke
- Roe v. Wade
- Shelby v. Holder
- Sipuel v. Oklahoma State Board of Regents
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- Standard Oil v. United States
- Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co.
- United States v. the Amistad
- United States v. Cruikshank
- United States v. Kras
- United States v. Peters
- Virginia v. Black
- Washington v. Davis
- West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
- West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
- Worcester v. Georgia
- Youngstown Sheet Tube v. Sawyer
Supreme Court Justices
- Samuel Alito
- Hugo Black
- Louis Brandeis
- Warren Burger
- Samuel Chase
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Stephen J. Field
- Abe Fortas
- Felix Frankfurter – Integrity
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- John Marshall Harlan II
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Robert H. Jackson
- John Jay
- Thomas Johnson
- William Johnson, Jr.
- Anthony Kennedy
- Henry Brockholst Livingston
- John Marshall
- John Marshall is Appointed to the Supreme Court
- John Marshall: Birth
- John Marshall: The Chief Justice Who Saved the Union
- John Marshall – Death
- John Marshall on Jefferson vs. Burr for President
- On Power of the Federal Judiciary
- John Marshall Sworn In As Chief Justice
- Without Precedent: John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul
- Thurgood Marshall
- Death of Thurgood Marshall
- Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
- Thurgood Marshall Delivers His Famous Bicentennial Speech
- Thurgood Marshall Nominated to the Supreme Court
- Confirmed as First African-American Supreme Court Justice
- Defense of African-Americans in Columbia, Tennessee Race Riot
- Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, The Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America
- Sworn In to the Supreme Court
- Sandra Day O’Connor
- Lewis Powell
- Stanley Reed
- William Rehnquist
- John Roberts
- Antonin Scalia
- Sonia Sotomayor
- John Paul Stevens
- Potter Stewart
- Harlan Stone
- Joseph Story
- William Howard Taft Sworn in as Chief Justice
- Roger B. Taney Sworn in as Chief Justice
- Clarence Thomas
- Thomas Todd
- Morrison Waite
- Earl Warren
- Bushrod Washington
The United Nations
- Charter Signed
- Convention on Discrimination Against Women
- Genocide Convention
- Rights of the Child
- Rights of the Children
- U.N. Adopts Genocide Convention
The United States
- United States Generally
- Alabama (see also, Civil Rights)
- Alabama Adopts Its Constitution
- Alabama Begins Statewide Convict Leasing & Fills Prisons with Blacks
- Alabama Black Man Lynched for Failing to Address White Policeman as Mr.
- Alabama Black Man Murdered for Using a “Whites Only” Bathroom
- Alabama Church Bombing in 1963 by KKK
- Alabama Joins the Union
- Alabama Racists Attack Nat King Cole on Stage
- Alabama Restricts Rights of Native Tribes
- Proud Racist George Wallace Inaugurated as Governor
- Syphilis Experiments on Poor Blacks in Tuskegee, Alabama
- Torture and Murder of Black Man in case of mistaken identity in Alabama
- White Civil Rights Worker Murdered in Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware Joins the Union
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Idaho Joins the Union
- Idaho Passes Anti-Miscegenation Law
- Idaho Passes Law Facilitating Involuntary Sterilization
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa Joins the Union
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Anarchy Engulfs New Orleans over Civil Rights During Reconstruction
- Colfax Massacre in Louisiana
- Deadly Attack on Gays in New Orleans
- Freedom in Congo Square, re slavery in Louisiana
- Huey Long, Governor of Louisiana
- Louisiana Joins the Union
- Lynching of Italian Americans in New Orleans
- Massacre of Blacks in Opelousas, Louisiana by White Supremacists
- Slave Uprising in Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Bread and Roses Labor Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts
- First Legal Code in North America
- Great Molasses Flood in Boston
- Massachusetts bans celebration of Christmas
- Massachusetts First State to Rule in Favor of Gay Marriage
- Massachusetts Introduces First Paper Money in the American Colonies
- Massachusetts Joins the Union
- Massachusetts outlaws Quakers
- New Priest Locked Out of Church for Crime of Being Irish
- Punishment by Law for Bad 16-Year-Old Boys
- Roger Williams Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Salem Witch Trials
- Michigan
- Minnesota Joins the Union
- Mississippi
- Civil Rights Murders in Mississippi
- Harassment of Black Voters in Mississippi in 1964
- Lunch Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi
- James Meredith Enrolls at U. Miss.
- Jury Frees White Men Confessing of Beating Black Man to Death
- Mississippi Church Bombing
- Mississippi Joins the Union
- Mississippi Repeals Last State Prohibition Law
- Mississippi Secedes from the Union
- Murder of Activist Lamar Smith in Mississippi to Deter Black Voting
- White Supremacist Victory in Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska Joins the Union
- Nevada
- New Hampshire Joins the Union
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Dutch Colonist Buys Manhattan
- Dedication of New York Public Library
- Enacts First State Dog Licensing Law
- First NYCity St Patrick’s Day Parade
- Jacob Riis & Exposure of Conditions in NYC Tenements
- New York Joins the Union
- New York Seventh Infantry Saves the Day
- New York Whites Protest School Integration
- Pro-Fascist Rally in New York
- Seneca Park Destroyed to Make Way for Central Park in NYC
- North Carolina
- North Dakota Joins the Union
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Civil War Begins With Attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina
- KKK Violence Against Blacks
- Massacre of Black Protestors in Orangeburg, SC
- South Carolina Enacts the Negro Codes
- South Carolina Enacts Doctrine of Nullification
- South Carolina Joins the Union
- South Carolina Opens All-White Primary to Blacks
- Virulent White Supremacist Elected Governor of South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Anglo-Saxon Clubs of Virginia Convene to Promote White Supremacy/li>
- Saltville, Virginia Massacre of Black Soldiers
- Virginia Adopts Declaration of Rights
- Virginia and Gay Marriage
- Virginia and Gay Marriage – Ban Ruled Unconstitutional
- Virginia Enacts Racial Integrity Act
- Virginia Enacts Slave Codes
- Virginia Enacts Textbook Laws
- Virginia Joins the Union
- Virginia Passes Law Allowing for Killing Slaves “If Provoked”
- Virginia Passes Law that Baptized Slaves are Not Exempt from Slavery
- Virginia Passes Racial Segregation Law for Public Events
- Washington, D.C. (see District of Columbia)
- Washington State Joins the Union
- West Virginia Joins the Union
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
The USSR (see Communism and the USSR)
Vice Presidents of the United States
Vietnam War
- 50 Things You Should Know About the Vietnam War
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatiana Soli
- My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
- Robert McNamara Joins the World Bank
- Robert McNamara Quits the Department of Defense
- The U.S. Goes on the Offensive
- Vietnam War by Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns
George Washington
- Advocates Peaceful Resolution of Indian Affairs
- Averts Mutiny
- Begs for More Money from Congress or “this army must dissolve.”
- Birth
- Birth of Washington and Inventing George Washington
- Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Celebration Dinner
- Creates Badge of Military Merit
- Date of Washington’s Birthday
- Death of Washington
- Exhorts America to Live Up to Its Promise
- Fondness for Ice Cream
- Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
- Frustration Over Partisan Wrangling
- Frustration Over Weak American Government
- George Washington: The Political Rise of America’s Founding Father by David O. Stewart
- George Washington and the Secret Six
- Goals if Elected President
- The Great Divide: The Conflict Between Washington and Jefferson That Defined a Nation
- Alexander Hamilton on George Washington’s Importance
- Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming
- Inventing George Washington
- John Adams on George Washington’s Theatricality
- Key to the Bastille
- Last Will and Testament
- Mankind’s Inability to Govern Itself
- Mandates Smallpox Vaccinations for Troops
- Marriage
- Martha Chafes at Restrictions on First Lady
- Martha’s Dower Rights & George’s Wealth
- Master George’s People
- Native American Policy
- Notifies John Hancock re Vaccination Mandate
- Offers Reward for Runaway Slaves
- On the American Character: Idleness, Dissipation, & Extravagance
- On Slavery
- On Southerners
- Promotes Science and Literature
- The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
- Resigning Commission as Commander in Chief
- Rules for Neutrality
- Thanksgiving Proclaimed
- Thoughts on Arming Slaves to Aid American Revolution
- The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life by Harlow Giles Unger
- Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Warns the Country About Political Rivalries
- Washington a Life by Ron Chernow
- Washington Writes Jefferson About First Torpedo Boat
- Wealth and Property
Women’s History (see also, entries in Biography)
- Susan B. Anthony
- Anti-Suffrage Movement
- Florence Blanchfield (first woman appointed to a permanent military rank)
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Books for Kids on Women’s History
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Lydia Maria Child
- Equal Rights Amendment Passed by Congress
- First Medical School for Women Opens
- First Woman Elected to US Senate
- First Woman to Fly a Fighter Jet
- First Woman to Lie in Honor in U.S. Capitol
- First Woman Police Officer with Arresting Power in the U.S.
- First Woman U.S. Asst. Attorney General
- First Woman in U.S. House of Representatives
- First Woman Judge
- Margaret Hinchey on Better Working Conditions for Women
- International Women’s Day
- Harriet Mill
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Positives of Imperialism and Rape?
- Elihu Root on Women’s Suffrage
- Resources
- Sexual Abuse in the Military
- Anna Howard Shaw Speech on Women’s Suffrage
- Lucy Stone
- Supreme Court Affirms Right of Women to Vote
- Women Admitted to SCOTUS Bar
- Women in New York Win the Right to Vote
- Women’s History Month in Books
- Women’s History Month in Law
- Women’s Non History
- Women’s “Proper Sphere”
- Women’s Reproductive Rights
- Women’s Right to Choose
- Women’s Suffrage Parade in D.C.
- Wonder Women: Women Who Changed History
World War I
- 50 Things You Should Know About The First World War
- 1917: Vladimir Lenin, Woodrow Wilson, and the Year that Created the Modern Age by Arthur Herman
- Armenian Genocide
- Arsenal Explosion in New Jersey during WWI
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – Did it Really Cause WWI?
- Austria-Hungary Declares War on Serbia
- Assault at Verdun
- Battle of Amiens
- Battle of Loos
- Battle of the Somme
- Bonus Army
- Review of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
- Cher Ami, Heroic Carrier Pigeon at Verdun
- Control of Historical Accounts in WWI
- The Deluge: The Great War, America, and The Remaking of the Global Order 1916-1931
- The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
- First U.S. Destroyer Lost to Enemy Action
- Gallipoli
- Germany Declares War on Neutral Belgium
- Germany Justifies Invasion of Neutral Belgium
- Germany Promises Support to Austria
- Germany Begins Gas Warfare
- Germany Will Be The Hammer or the Anvil
- The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan
- Review of Harlem Hellfighters
- Help for Disabled WWI Veterans
- Historians Adopt Resolutions to Aid Development of Patriotism in Education During WWI
- Knox-Porter Resolution Officially Ends US Involvement in WWI
- Review of Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly & The Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
- Review of Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire by Peter Hopkirk
- Review of The Long Shadow: The Legacies of The Great War in the Twentieth Century by David Reynolds
- Review of The Lost History of 1914: Reconsidering the Year the Great War Began by Jack Beatty
- Lusitania
- Meuse-Argonne Offensive
- Review of Mud, Blood, and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan
- Review of The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier
- Opening of Versailles Conference Post WWI
- Review of The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Sean McMeekin
- Review of A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
- Retreat, Hell!
- Sabotage by German Agents in New Jersey
- Sinking of the Lusitania and Review of Dead Wake by Erik Larson
- Review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Review of The Somme
- Supreme Council of Supply and Relief
- Third Battle of Ypres
- U.S. Declares War on Austria-Hungary
- Versailles Conference
- Review of Victory: 1918 by Alan Palmer
- Review of The War That Ended Peace by Margaret Macmillan
- Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
- Review of The World Before the Great War by Charles Emmerson
- Review of The World Remade: America in WWI by G. J. Meyer
World War II (see also Antisemitism and The Holocaust, Churchill, and Atomic Weapons
- 50 Things You Should Know About The Second World War
- 1937 Imagining of Japanese Attack on America
- Allied bombing of Dresden, Germany begins
- Armageddon by Max Hastings
- Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Axis Formed
- Battle of Kursk
- Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War:1931-1945 by Richard Overy
- Coffee Rationing
- Conference in Casablanca
- Crossword Puzzle Almost Compromises D-Day
- Cultures of War
- D-Day
- D-Day – Jumping the Gun
- D-Day – Postponement
- Eisenhower Requisitions Coca-Cola Bottling Plants
- End of Siege of Leningrad
- Enemy Internment in Great Britain
- First Kamikaze Strikes
- Football Game Delays Announcement of Pearl Harbor
- Forced Prostitution in Japan
- France Signs an Armistice with Germany
- Frankfurters Become Victory Sausages
- George Patton Claims PTSD is Cowardice in Disguise
- The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- Guns at Last Light
- Hitler issues secret directive for erasure of city of St. Petersburg
- The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
- Infamy: The Shocking Story of The Japanese-American Internment in World War II
- Iwo Jima
- Japan Invades Alaska During WWII
- Japanese Internees Allowed to Return Home
- Justice Robert H. Jackson delivers opening statement at Nuremberg Trials for war crimes
- Lend-Lease Bill
- Lynching of Black WWII Veterans
- Marshall Plan
- Meeting of Allies to Aid Germans Post WWII
- Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
- No Simple Victory by Norman Davies
- Normandy Invasion & Review of Guns at Last Light
- Operation Barbarossa & Invasion of Soviet Union by Nazi Germany
- Operation Pointblank
- The Port Chicago Disaster in WWII & Fight for Civil Rights for African American Soldiers
- Quebec Conference on Military Strategy
- Reagan Signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Authorizing Reparations to Japanese-Americans
- Retribution: The Battle for Japan: 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
- Rosie the Riveter Makes Her First Appearance
- Review of The Secret War by Max Hastings
- Siege of Leningrad
- Soviet Union Attacks Finland
- Soviets Torpedo Ship Full of Jewish Refugees
- The Splendid and the Vile (Churchill during the Blitz) by Erik Larson
- Stalin’s War: A New History of WWII by Sean McMeekin
- The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
- Wartime Ban Sale on Sliced Bread
- The Winter Army – 10th Mountain Division
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