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Booker T. Washington was born in a slave hut on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia, APRIL 5, 1856.He taught himself to read and write,...

Beginning in the late 700s, Vikings from Scandinavia, called Danes and Swedes, began raiding the coasts and up the rivers of England and Europe. Since they were from "the north," they were referred to as Norse...

Download as PDF ... In 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the third Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Reverend...

By the time of the Civil War, the slave population in the United States had grown to four million. The two major political parties in...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who lived in the city-state of Athens. In 380 B.C., Plato wrote The Republic, where he described in Books 8 and 9: "States are as the...

"Doctor Livingstone, I presume," stated New York Herald reporter Henry Stanley on November 10, 1871, as he met David Livingstone on the banks of Africa's Lake Tanganyika. Dr. Livingstone was the internationally renowned missionary...

Abortion became legal in all nine months of pregnancy on January 22, 1973, with the Supreme Court decisions Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Norma McCorvey, who...

The 6th Amendment to the United States Constitution is a crucial component of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees specific rights and protections to American citizens.

A surge of migrants in New York City, particularly in the East Village area, has resulted in sanitation issues and concerns among locals. Adult...

Boston, Massachusetts freed an illegal immigrant suspected of raping a disabled person after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) asked that the individual was detained.