Alcohol and Related Legislation
- American Alcohol Consumption Before 18th Amendment
- 18th Amendment Partially Modified by FDR
- 21st Amendment Ratified
- FDR (Re)Legalizes Sale of Beer & Wine
- Kentucky Wine Restrictions
- Mississippi Repeals Last State Prohibition Law
- Scotch Whisky Laws
- Whiskey Tax Rebellion
Amendments to the Constitution
- Congress Ratifies Bill of Rights (First Ten Amendments)
- Corwin Amendment to Protect Slavery
- New Jersey Ratifies Bill of Rights (First Ten Amendments)
- Second Amendment: A Biography
- 11th Amendment Ratified
- 12th Amendment Ratified
- 14th Amendment – Background
- 15th Amendment and Ulysses S. Grant
- 17th Amendment Wins Approval
- American Alcohol Consumption Before 18th Amendment
- 18th Amendment Partially Modified by FDR
- 21st Amendment Ratified
- 24th Amendment Ratified
- 25th Amendment and other Presidential Succession Acts
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
- Beaumarchais and French Aid for American Revolution
- Boston Tea Party
- British Parliament Passes Stamp Act
- Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick
- Burning of Falmouth, Massachusetts
- Casimir Pulaski
- 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 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
Antisemitism and the Holocaust
- Anne Frank was Captured
- Antisemitism – Political Uses Per Sigmund Freud
- Bucharest, Romania Massacres of Jews
- Children of Tehran
- Dreyfus Case
- Expulsion of Jews from Russia
- Final Destruction of Jews in Eishishok, Lithuania
- German Army Occupies Vilna
- Jedwabne Massacre of Jews in Poland
- Lodz Ghetto Liquidation
- Massacre of Jews in York, England
- Nazis Arrive in Krakow, Poland
- 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 Paul IV Orders Jews into a Ghetto
- Romania
- Smoke Over Birkenau
- Soviet Army Liberates Lodz Ghetto
- Spain Finally Voids Ban on Jews After 500 Years
- Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Campaign
- Uprising at Nazi Concentration Camp Sobibor
- Warsaw Ghetto Resistance
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Atomic Weapons
- 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
- 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 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- 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
- 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
Australia
- First British Nuclear Test (off coast of Australia)
- Gallipoli
- Immigration Restriction
- Internment in Australia
Biographies (but see separate entries for Churchill, Frederick Douglass, Grant, 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
- Marian Anderson
- Susan B. Anthony
- Benedict Arnold
- David Axelrod
- Benjamin Banneker
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- John Bingham
- Charles L. Black, Jr.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Amelia Jenks Bloomer
- Niels Bohr
- John Brown
- Aaron Burr
- John Calhoun
- Geoffrey Canada
- Lewis Carroll
- Roger Casement
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Catherine the Great
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlemagne
- Charles VI
- Lydia Maria Child
- Cicero
- Henry Clay
- William Coleman
- Robert M. Cover
- Crazy Horse
- Oliver Cromwell
- Marie Curie
- Nathan Dane, Author of Northwest Ordinance
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Eugene V. Debs
- Martin Delany
- Stephen A. Douglas
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Albert Einstein
- Frederick Engles
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- Anne Frank
- Woody Guthrie
- Benjamin Franklin
- Elizebeth Smith Friedman
- Klaus Fuchs
- Mohandas Ghandi
- Jack Greenberg
- Andrei Gromyko
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Learned Hand
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Charles Leo “Gabby” Hartnett
- Patrick Henry
- Anita Hill
- Charles Hamilton Houston
- John Hanson
- Langston Hughes
- Mikhail Kalashnikov
- Helen Keller
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy
- T. E. Lawrence
- Charles Lee
- Clara Lemlich
- Charles Lindbergh
- Huey Long
- Ada Lovelace
- John Roy Lynch
- Douglas MacArthur
- Dolly Madison
- Malcolm X
- Nelson Mandela
- Nathan Ross Margold
- Karl Marx
- George Mason
- Joseph McCarthy
- Robert McNamara
- Lise Meitner
- Harriet Mill
- Arthur Miller
- Walter Mondale
- Charles Morgan, Jr.
- Stanley Mosk
- Napoleon
- Isaac Newton
- Rosa Parks
- Alice Paul
- William Penn
- Richard Posner
- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Leontyne Price
- Richard Price
- Casimir Pulaski
- Lawrence Dunbar Reddick
- Bass Reeves
- Richard III
- Paul Robeson
- Here I Stand by Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson
- Paul Robeson – Birth
- John D. Rockefeller
- Nancy Grace Roman
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elihu Root
- Julius Rosenwald
- Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross
- Bayard Rustin
- Margaret Sanger
- William Seward
- James Shields
- Charlie Sifford
- Nina Simone
- William H. Smith – African American Librarian of Congress
- Edward Snowden
- Ainsworth Spofford
- Joseph Stalin
- Maria Stewart, African American Activist
- Mary Church Terrell
- Jim Thorpe
- Benjamin Tillman
- Leon Trotsky
- Sojourner Truth
- George Tucker
- Alan Turing
- Dorothy Vaughn
- George Wallace
- Judge Waties Waring
- Booker T. Washington
- Martha Washington
- Daniel Webster
- Ida B. Wells
- Oscar Wilde
- Mabel Walker Willebrandt
- Robert F. Williams, Civil Rights Activist
- Roger Williams
- William Wirt
- Victoria Woodhull
- Granville Woods
- Chien-Shiung Wu
Book Reviews (not otherwise indexed by subject matter)
- 50 Things You Should Know About American Presidents
- The American Vice Presidency
- Awesome America
- Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History
- Believer: My Forty Years in Politics by David Axelrod
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
- 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
- Directorate S: The CIA & America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
- 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
- Extraordinary Rendition
- A Fiery Peace in a Cold War by Neil Sheehan
- Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
- Galileo’s Mistake
- Germania by Simon Winder
- 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
- The Immortal Irishman
- The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Rough Crossings
- The Second Amendment: A Biography
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- 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
- Trespassers on the Roof of the World
- The War Lovers by Evan Thomas
- War Made New by Max Boot
- Waterloo
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
Churchill, Winston
- Churchill Takes Over as Prime Minister in 1940
- Churchill – “We Shall Never Surrender”
- Churchill’s Eulogy for Neville Chamberlain
- Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech
- Franklin and Winston
- Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard
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
- 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.
- Civil Rights Act of 1875
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Civil Rights Murders in Mississippi
- Civil Rights Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore
- 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 Seated in the U.S. Senate
- First African American on a State Supreme Court
- First Black General in U.S. Army
- First Black Nominated for a Federal Judgeship
- 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.
- Little Rock Integration
- Lunch Counter Sit-In in Jackson, Mississippi
- Lunch Counter Sit-in in Wichita, Kansas
- March on Washington
- Mississippi Church Bombing
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- National Negro Labor Council
- NAACP Founded
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- 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
- Antietam – Discovery of Confederate Plans
- Attack on Fort Sumter
- Battle of Petersburg
- Battle of Poison Springs & Massacre of Black Union Soldiers
- Battle of Shiloh
- 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
- 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)
- 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’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”
- Sheridan Inspires His Men in Winchester, VA
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- U.S. Issues Code of Conduct for War
Communism (outside the U.S.) and USSR and 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
- 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
- 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
- Sputnik is Launched
- Joseph Stalin
- Stalin Orders the Great Purge
- Leon Trotsky
- 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
- Frederick Douglass – Birth
- 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. – 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
- 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
- Virginia Law and Textbooks
- Landmark case on School Segregation – Westminster School District v. Mendez
Founding Fathers (see American Revolution, individual entries for Washington, Hamilton & entries in Biography)
France
- Allied Invasion of Normandy, France
- 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
- France – Last Execution by Guillotine
- 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
- The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace by H.W. Brands
- Praises 15th Amendment
- 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
- Britain’s Three Main Enemies
- British Defeat French at Quebec
- British Royal Air Force Founded
- Charles II and Restoration of Monarchy
- Oliver Cromwell Becomes Lord Protector
- First British Nuclear Test
- Great Britain’s First Reigning Monarchs to Set Foot on American Soil
- House of Windsor is selected as Royal House Name to Replace the Germanic name
- India Act Extends British Control Over India
- 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
- Alan Turing
- WWII Enemy Internment in Great Britain
Hamilton, Alexander (see also American Revolution)
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Alexander Hamilton Anticipates Trump
- Birth Date
- Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaro 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
History, Generally
- American Alcohol Consumption Before Prohibition
- Annexation of Mexican Territory by U.S. Advocated
- Anti-Communist Raids
- Armenian Genocide
- Attack on Gays in New Orleans, Louisiana
- American Independence Day – July 2 or July 4?
- Battle of Agincourt
- Battle of New Orleans
- Berlin Conference of 1885 on Disposition of African States
- Bismarck
- Boston Tea Party
- Coast Guard is Established
- Columbus Spots Land in the Americas
- Common Sense is Published in the Colonies
- Dogs of War
- Energy Power
- Explosion of the Battleship Maine
- Fascism, Per Historian George Mosse
- FBI is Established
- First African-American Woman Appointed to Judicial Office
- First American Post Office
- First Continental Congress
- First Earth Day
- First Federal Court Session
- First Moon Landing
- First Peacetime Draft in U.S. History
- First Peacetime Draft Selection
- First Public Performance of My Country Tis of Thee
- First Sanctioned Monopoly in America
- First Surgeon’s General Report Linking Smoking and Health
- First Televised Presidential Debate
- First Torpedo Boat
- First Voyage to North Pole by Nuclear-Powered Sub
- Gun Violence and Youth
- Hindenburg Disaster
- Internment of Refugees and Keeping Track of Families
- Iranian Revolution
- Kellogg-Briand Pact
- Know-Nothing Convention in Philadelphia
- League of Nations Officially Disbanded
- Library of Congress
- Louisiana Purchase
- Melting Pot Opens on Broadway
- The Mexican-American War & The Conquest of the American Continent
- Myth of “Rags to Riches”
- Nation’s Capital Officially Named Washington
- Northwest Ordinance Passed
- Pentagon Groundbreaking
- The Pig War
- Political Protests in the Seventies
- Pope Abolishes Prohibited Books List
- Rwandan Genocide
- Senate Moves to Temporary Emergency Quarters
- Shays’ Rebellion
- Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
- Spingarn Medal Established by NAACP
- Statue of Liberty
- Stock Market Crash
- 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
- U.S. Accidentally Shoots Down Commercial Iranian Flight
- U.S. Army Created
- U.S. Navy Created
- Volcano in Iceland Changes History
- West German Spy Defects to East Germany
- Whiskey Tax Rebellion
- X,Y,Z Affair
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
- Immigration Restriction in Australia
- Internment of Refugees and Keeping Track of Families
- Lincoln Decries Anti-Immigration Stance of Know-Nothings
- Walter Mondale on Indochinese Refugees
Imprisonment (see Prisons)
International, Generally (see also, Great Britain and USSR)
- Algerian War – Peace Agreement
- Armenian Genocide (in Turkey)
- Belgium Proclaims Independence
- Brazil Declares Itself a Federal Republic
- China
- Germany – Review of Danubia
- Icelandic National Day
- Japan – Tokyo Sarin Attack
- Nepal
- Norway Constitution Signed
- Panama Canal
- Sweden Abolishes Capital Punishment
- 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 Famine
- Patrick Pearse Stirring Funeral Oration: Ireland Unfree Shall Never Be at Peace
Jefferson, Thomas
- 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
- Crushing Monied Corporations
- Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and the Future of America; Jefferson’s Role by Thomas Fleming
- Encomium to Jefferson by Lincoln
- 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 Leaves Paris for 3-Month Tour of Europe
- Jefferson’s Library
- Jefferson and the Library of Congress
- 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
- Objects to Supreme Court Hegemony
- On Liberty’s Natural Manure
- On Patrick Henry
- On the Rule of Law
- 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
- 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
- Awarded Nobel Prize
- Birth
- Black Bus Boycott in Alabama
- Black Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis
- A Dream Still Deferred
- Electronic Resources
- 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
- Warning to JFK
- Words of Inspiration
Korea
- Armistice Technically Ends Korean War
- 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
- Bisbee AZ Deportation of Striking Workers
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Bus Boycott in NYC & Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
- Health and Human Rights Online Database
- Labor Activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
- 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
- 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
- Stand Your Ground Laws
- Voting Laws Roundup 2016
- Women’s Reproductive Rights
Legal, Generally
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Banned Books Week 2014
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Bush v. Gore Election
- Children in Poverty
- 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 DOMA
- Equal Opportunity Act
- European Union Treaty
- Robert Cover on Rule of Law
- Ethnicity as a Legal Construct
- Federalist Papers
- First African American on a State Supreme Court
- First Federal Park Land Protection Law
- First Murder Conviction from Animal DNA
- 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
- Presidential Succession Act
- NAFTA Signed into Law
- The Rule of Law
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Scorpions (re Supreme Court)
- Signing of the Constitution
- Taft-Hartley Act
- Taxation and the Common Good
- Teaching Science Violates Religious Freedom?
- Theorists, Influential Legal
- The Trial of Socrates
- 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
- Cooper Union
- Dedication of the Lincoln Memorial
- Elected President
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Encomium to Jefferson by Lincoln
- 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
- 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
- Law Practice
- Lincoln and his Admirals
- Lincoln Asks the Band to Play Dixie
- Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
- Lincoln and Constitutional issues
- Lincoln and Meaning of Declaration of Independence
- Lincoln Decries Anti-Immigration Stance of Know-Nothings
- Lincoln’s Descendants
- Lincoln and Dueling
- Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman Meet at City Point, Virginia
- 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 Legacy
- Lincoln’s Lieutenants: The High Command of the Army of the Potomac
- 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
- Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s Most Perilous Year
- Speech at Peoria
- Thanksgiving Proclaimed
- Tried by War: Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief
Media
- Media and Racism
- 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
- Studies of Stereotyping of Blacks in Media
Mexico
- Mexicans Repulse French on Cinco de Mayo
- Gadsden Purchase Treaty
- Leon Trotsky Assassinated in Mexico
- The Mexican-American War & The Conquest of the American Continent
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Ending Mexican-American War
Middle East (see also entry for World War I)
- America’s War for the Greater Middle East by Andrew Bacevich
- 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
- 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
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
- Carlisle Indian School
- Crazy Horse
- First Native American Newspaper
- George Washington & Native American Policy
- Indian Citizenship Act & Native American Voting Rights
- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
- Jeremiah Evarts on Cherokee Rights
- Johnson v. M’intosh
- Manifest Destiny
- Native American Land Appropriation
- Native American Voting Rights
- Pequot Massacres by the Puritans
- Sand Creek Massacre
- Thanksgiving (History)
- 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
- 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
- Buchanan, James
- Clinton, Impeachment
- Coolidge, Calvin
- Carter, Jimmy
- 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 Requisitions Coca-Cola Bottling Plants During WWII
- Eisenhower: The White House Years by Jim Newton
- Eisenhower Warns of a Communist Domino Effect
- Eisenhower Warns of a Military-Industrial Complex
- Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda
- Ike’s Bluff by Evan Thomas
- Ford, Gerald
- Garfield
- Grant (see separate entry)
- Harding, Warren
- Harrison, Benjamin
- Harrison, William Henry
- Hayes, Rutherford B. (installs 1st phone in White House)
- Hoover, Herbert
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jefferson (see separate entry)
- Johnson, Lyndon (see separate entry)
- Johnson, Andrew
- Kennedy, John
- Lincoln (see separate entry)
- Madison, James
- McKinley, William – Assassination
- Monroe, James
- Richard Nixon
- Obama, Barack
- Polk, James K.
- Ronald Reagan
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
- 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
- Truman, Harry S.
- Tyler, John
- Van Buren, Martin
- Washington (see separate entry)
- Wilson, Woodrow
Prisons
- Guantanamo
- Incarceration and Inequality
- Mass Incarceration Statistics
- Prison Abuse Case: Rash v. Walker
- 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
- Japanese Internment and Children
- Japanese Internment and Keeping Track of Families
- 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 Black Man Lynched for Failing to Address White Policeman as Mr.
- Alabama Racists Attack Nat King Cole on Stage
- America is Not for Black People
- America’s Racial Divide
- Marian Anderson Performs at the Lincoln Memorial
- Anglo-Saxon Clubs of Virginia/li>
- Assassination of Benjamin Randolph
- 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
- Cincinnati, Ohio Race Riots
- Colfax Massacre
- 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
- Gone With the Wind Premier
- High-Risers: Cabrini Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Incarceration and Inequality
- The Invisible Line
- Killing the Black Body
- KKK – Creation
- KKK Rally in Chicago
- Lynching of Black WWII Veterans
- March on Washington for Jobs
- Massacre of Blacks in N.C. by White Supremacists
- Media and Racism
- 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 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- 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
- Reverend George Lee Killed in Mississippi for Helping Blacks to Vote
- Eleanor Roosevelt Resigns DAR in Protest Over Racism
- Ruth and the Green Book
- 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
- 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)
- Lynching of Italian Americans
- Media and Racism
- Racism Against Hispanics
- Westminster School District v. Mendez
Religious History
- The American Haggadah
- 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
- 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
- New American Haggadah
- The Power of Parable by John Dominic Crossan
- Scopes Monkey Trial
- Split in Episcopal Church over Gay Unions Averted
- 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
- 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)
Scotland
- Golf and Football Banned in Scotland
- 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
- Brawl on the Floor of Congress Over Slavery
- Pres. Buchanan Signs Corwin Amendment to Protect Slavery
- John Calhoun Claims Slavery is a Positive Good
- Continuing Influence of Slavery Legacy
- D.C. Emancipation Act
- Denmark Vesey Hanged
- Discovery of “Disease” Making Blacks Not Want to be 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
- Frederick Douglass on the Meaning of The Fourth of July for Slaves
- Freedom in Congo Square
- Gateway to Freedom: The History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner
- How One Town Stood Up to Slavery
- 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 Bans Abolitionist Materials
- New York Anti-Slavery Society
- New Jersey Legislation for Gradual Abolition of Slavery
- Northwest Ordinance Passed with Ban on Slavery Included
- 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 Reparations
- Robert Smalls Makes A Break for Freedom
- Stonewall Jackson’s Black Sunday School
- Nat Turner’s Slavery Rebellion
- Vermont 1st state to abolish slavery
- Virginia Enacts Slave Codes
- 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)
- Baseball in Japanese Internment Camps
- Boxing Match Between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney
- Boxer Jack Johnson Arrested for Violating the Mann Act
- Charlie Sifford – 1st African American in Golf Hall of Fame
- Cubs Baseball Game – “Homer in the Gloamin”
- First Sitting U.S. President to Attend Major Legue Baseball Game
- Althea Gibson – 1st African American Woman on U.S. Tennis Tour
- Althea Gibson – 1st African American to Win Wimbledon
- Golf and Football Banned in Scotland
- Jim Thorpe
States (see The United States)
Supreme Court, Generally
- 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
- Baker v. Carr
- Beecher v. Wetherby
- Brown v. Allen
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Boynton v. Virginia
- Buck v. Bell
- Bush v. Gore
- Carolene Products v. U.S.
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- Civil Rights Cases
- Dred Scott
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- Ex parte Milligan
- Georgia v. Brailsford
- Gibbons v. Ogden
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- 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
- Near v. Minnesota
- New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
- 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
- Slaughterhouse Cases
- Standard Oil v. United States
- Steele v. Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co.
- 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
- Warren E. Burger
- Louis Brandeis
- Warren Burger
- Samuel Chase
- Oliver Ellsworth
- Stephen J. Field
- Felix Frankfurter – Integrity
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Robert H. Jackson
- John Jay
- Thomas Johnson
- Anthony Kennedy
- John Marshall
- Thurgood Marshall
- Death of Thurgood Marshall
- Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
- Thurgood Marshall Delivers His Famous Bicentennial Speech
- Confirmed as First African American Supreme Court Justice
- 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 and Judicial Minimalism
- Antonin Scalia
- Sonia Sotomayor
- John Paul Stevens
- Joseph Story
- William Howard Taft Sworn in as Chief Justice
- Clarence Thomas
- Morrison Waite
- Earl Warren
- Bushrod Washington
The United Nations
- Charter Signed
- Convention on Discrimination Against Women
- Genocide Convention
- Rights of the Children
- U.N. Adopts Genocide Convention
The United States
- United States Generally
- Alabama (see also, Civil Rights)
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- Florida Joins the Union
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Idaho Joins the Union
- Idaho Passes Law Facilitating Involuntary Sterilization
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa Joins the Union
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine Joins the Union
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- 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.
- Mississippi Church Bombing
- Mississippi Joins the Union
- Mississippi Repeals Last State Prohibition Law
- White Supremacist Victory in Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana Joins the Union
- Nebraska Joins the Union
- Comstock Silver Lode Discovered in Nevada
- New Hampshire Joins the Union
- New Jersey
- New Mexico Joins the Union
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota Joins the Union
- Ohio
- Oklahoma Joins the Union
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Anglo-Saxon Clubs of Virginia Convene to Promote White Supremacy/li>
- 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
- Washington Joins the Union
- West Virginia Joins the Union
- Wisconsin Joins the Union
- Wyoming Massacre of Chinese Immigrants
The USSR (see Communism and the USSR)
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
- Averts Mutiny
- 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
- Founding Foodies: How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
- Frustration Over Partisan Wrangling
- Frustration Over Weak American Government
- 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
- Marriage
- Martha Chafes at Restrictions on First Lady
- Martha’s Dower Rights & George’s Wealth
- Master George’s People
- Native American Policy
- Offers Reward for Runaway Slaves
- On the American Character
- Promotes Science and Literature
- The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
- Resigning Commission as Commander in Chief
- Thanksgiving Proclaimed
- 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 Woman U.S. Asst. Attorney General
- First Woman in U.S. House of Representatives
- First Woman Judge
- International Women’s Day
- Harriet Mill
- Positives of Imperialism and Rape?
- Resources
- Sexual Abuse in the Military
- Anna Howard Shaw Speech on Women’s Suffrage
- Supreme Court Affirms Right of Women to Vote
- 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
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand – Did it Really Cause WWI?
- Battle of the Somme
- Bonus Army
- Review of Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings
- Cher Ami, Heroic Carrier Pigeon at Verdun
- Christmas Eve Truce 1914
- Christmas Truce of 1914 for Kids
- 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
- 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
- Review of Harlem Hellfighters
- Historians Adopt Resolutions to Aid Development of Patriotism in Education During 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
- Review of Mud, Blood, and Poppycock by Gordon Corrigan
- Review of The Myth of the Great War by John Mosier
- 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
- Review of The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
- Review of The Somme
- Supreme Council of Supply and Relief
- U.S. Declares War on Austria-Hungary
- Versailles Conference
- Review of The War That Ended Peace by Margaret Macmillan
- 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, and Atomic Weapons
- 50 Things You Should Know About The Second World War
- Review of Armageddon by Max Hastings
- Review of Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Axis Formed
- 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
- Forced Prostitution in Japan
- Frankfurters Become Victory Sausages
- George Patton Claims PTSD is Cowardice in Disguise
- Review of The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan
- Guns at Last Light
- Review of The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
- Review of Infamy: The Shocking Story of The Japanese-American Internment in World War II
- Japanese Internees Allowed to Return Home
- Lend-Lease Bill
- Lynching of Black WWII Veterans
- Reagan Signs the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 Authorizing Reparations to Japanese-Americans
- Meeting of Allies to Aid Germans Post WWII
- Review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh
- Review of 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 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
- Quebec Conference on Military Strategy
- Review of 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
- Review of The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food by Lizzie Collingham
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