The United Nations officially began October 24, 1945.Its name was coined by President Franklin Roosevelt.
The United Nations' charter was drafted in the Garden Room of San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel.
The Charter meeting did not...
Democrats passed laws called "Black Codes," which included taking guns away from Blacks.
The Democrat Legislature of North Carolina passed a Black Code, published in 1825:
"No slave shall go armed with gun, sword, club, or other weapon, or...
It was an unusually warm day in the seaside town of Portoroz, and Leida Ruvina was growing suspicious. The doctoral program she had been enrolled in for weeks had all the signs of a sham—the campus was a small, shabby building rented out from a tourist school and the French translation for “Euro-Mediterranean” in the university’s seal was misspelled.
Ruvina raised her hand to ask the university’s president what was going on, and he assured her that everything was in order. He then complimented her on her fluent English and offered to advise her on her dissertation thesis. “If you want, I can be your mentor,” she recalled him telling her in an awkward exchange as he steered the conversation away from questions about the university’s legitimacy.
The narrative that LGBTQ youth face higher rates of suicide and bullying compared to their non-LGBTQ peers has dominated public discourse, but is that...
There have been 46 U.S. Presidents. The tallest was Abraham Lincoln at 6’4” and shortest was James Madison at 5’4”.
The heaviest President was William...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and First Liberty Institute have filed a lawsuit against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) after it rejected a Christian group’s bus advertisement.
