American History
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
World War II ended on the deck of the USS Missouri. Five years later the Korean War broke out--and the 'Mighty Mo' was the only U.S. battleship ready to fight.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
The press and the polls agreed: Harry Truman was certain to lose. But instead of giving up, the president decided to 'give 'em hell.'
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
U.S. Navy Captain Charles Gridley earned a place in history on May 1, 1898, during the Battle of Manila Bay.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Ben Franklin warned that it would be a 'hard nut to crack'--but in 1745 a ragtag army of New Englanders captured Louisburg, France's most imposing North American stronghold.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Born 300 years ago, Benjamin Franklin remains perhaps the most inquisitive, creative and prodigious inventor, innovator and thinker ever born on American soil. But which of Franklin's many 'inventions' was actually his most important? A scientist offers a somewhat surprising answer.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
On the eve of the colonials' leap into revolution, Benjamin Franklin was the target of a dangerous initiative by a French secret agent to determine the Americans' intentions and capabilities. Franklin's wisdom -- and wile -- proved pivotal in boosting French confidence in supporting the insurgents.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:12 pm
The intermittent war between the United States and the Plains Indians that stretched across some three decades after the Civil War came to an end on December 29, 1890, at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Indian warriors killed hundreds of Virginia colonists during the Powhatan Uprising of 1622. Also among the victims were 20 women whose stories will never be fully told.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:11 pm
American GIs talked of a Japanese radio broadcaster they knew as Tokyo Rose, and the U.S. government said the sultry voice belonged to an American citizen named Iva Toguri d'Aquino. But did it?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Ninety years after its first screening and 100 years after the publication of the novel that inspired it, D.W. Griffith's motion picture continues to be lauded for its cinematographic excellence and vilified for its racist content. The film came from Griffith's personal vision, and as such it reflected the strengths and weaknesses of the man himself.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Out of the pranks of precocious sisters in upstate New York in 1847 grew a religious and social movement that swept across America. Often associated with abolition, suffrage and the brotherhood of all souls, spiritualism continued to evolve and flourish through the 20th century.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:09 pm
In spite of his youth and inexperience in journalism, Edward R. Murrow assembled a team of radio reporters in Europe that brought World War II into the parlors of America and set the gold standard for all broadcast news to this day.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
After wending his way through the economic, political and moral quagmire of slavery, in his will -- his final and most symbolic message to the nation -- George Washington presented a blueprint for ending the 'Peculiar Institution.'
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
George Washington had fought and won a war, served two terms as the new nation's first president, and kept that nation on an even keel. After all that, could he be satisfied with retirement on his country estate?
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
No U.S. president had ever flown while in office, and none had ever visited Africa. But that didn't deter President Franklin D. Roosevelt from flying to Morocco for a top-secret meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. For Roosevelt, it was more than just a vitally important wartime conference -- it was a grand adventure.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The key to understanding Abraham Lincoln's philosophy of statesmanship is that he always sought the meeting point between what was right in theory and what could be achieved in practice.
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