Japanese Emperor Meiji allowed many freedoms during the Meiji Restoration, 1868-1912.
The country industrialized, adopted many Western ideas, allowed voting, ended feudalism, permitted private citizens to own land,...
USA Today ran the headlines, April 11, 2024: "Voters, fearful of World War III as Iran strikes Israel."
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8,...
On APRIL 15, 1865, President Lincoln died. He was shot the night before in Ford's Theater.
On APRIL 15, 1912, the Titanic sank. It struck an iceberg the night...
The French and Indian War ended in 1763 with the French forced to cede to the British all of Canada and the land from the Appalachian Mountains west to the Mississippi River.
The French had cultivated...
After the French and Indian war, King George the Third to decided to keep troops in the American colonies in case of future attacks by the French or their Indian allies.
To fund...
Ancient peoples, for millennia, had used calendars based on the moon, whose lunar cycles incrementally shifted through the seasons. These shifting seasons served as...
President Nixon, in his last official address, August 8, 1974, left a cryptic warning of the Middle East "... so that the cradle of civilization will not...
