Daily Quiz for January 22, 2020

Jim Thrope won this many gold medals at the Stockholm 1912 Olympics....

VIDEO: This Week in History – Michigan Becomes 26th State

On January 26, 1837, Michigan officially becomes the 26th state. After a long territorial dispute with Ohio, the matter is settled after Michigan gives up the Toledo Strip in exchange for statehood. ...

World War II

Memories of Childhood in an American Internment Camp

An 84-year-old man looks back at life inside Minidoka War Relocation Center....

World War II

The 10th Mountain Division’s Deadly Uphill Battle in Italy

In 1945, the newly fielded U.S. 10th Mountain Division battled the enemy and the elements in Italy's Northern Apennines....

World War II

The Artist Who Dared to Take On the Nazis From Their Earliest...

Grosz and Hitler were equally traumatized by Germany’s defeat—but they coped in wildly divergent ways. ...

American History

Audiobook Review – The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made

Patricia O’Toole compellingly explains how a moralizing outlook drove Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, from WWI to handling domestic politics....

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Should the Allies Have Bombed Auschwitz? PBS Show Engages in Counterfactual History

"That’s the problem with counterfactuals, history only happened one way."...

Civil War Times

Explore Life Along the Levee

New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862 ...

Military History

Red Dawn in Romanovka, Russia

Early one morning in 1919 Bolsheviks ambushed the camp of an American expeditionary force outside Romanovka, Russia. But why were the doughboys even there? ...

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