La Follette Papers Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator Robert Marion La Follette is one of the pivotal figures of the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century. La Follette's papers focus on his fight to reform corruption and injustice in Wisconsin's political system, ...
He was born in Oakville, Alabama, but soon his family moved to Ohio. From the childhood Jesse Owens was interested in track and field. He had a chance to provide the professional expertise in this kind of sport during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens was awarded four gold medals for...
This made him the first major league player to earn six figures during a season. DiMaggio hit 32 home runs and had 122 runs batted in during the 1950 season. It was his second-to-last, however; he retired after the 1951 season. Dig Deeper Longest Hitting Streaks in Base...
In Washington, House SpeakerNancy Pelosisaid it is time to remove statues of Confederate figures from the U.S. Capitol and take their names off military bases such as Fort Bragg, Fort Benning and Fort Hood. PresidentDonald Trumpon Wednesday rejected the idea of renaming bases, but a Senate p...
Four days later, on September 11, 1978, he was dead. The cause was determined to be poisoning from a ricin pellet fired into his leg. KGB defectors confirmed that the pellet was fired by a KGB agent using a modified umbrella - which has never been found.Filed under: Historical Figures...
It recounts the charges and defenses, the role of the Tejanos on the Texan side, and the deaths of famous historical figures such as Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie (of “Bowie knife” fame). While history threatens to bury this movie, the movie itself has kept this legendary confl...
Sections Figures References Abstract Main Approach Power plant siting and HOLC grade HOLC grade and present-day power plant emissions Discussion Methods Data availability Code availability References Acknowledgements Author information Ethics declarations Peer review Additional information Supplementary information Ri...
In 1970s California a young Iranian immigrant figures out how to be American without rejecting her heritage. This funny and moving novel isgreat for fans of Judy Blume, who will connect to Zomorod Yousefzadeh's (who now wants to be called "Cindy") attempts to fit in with her peers. ...
From left: Autherine Lucy, Thurgood Marshall, and Arthur Shores exit the federal courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, in February 1956, following Lucy’s reinstatement as the first black person to be admitted to the University of Alabama.
When military figures are revered as heroes – whether rulers (Joseph Stalin, Peter the Great, or Alexander Nevsky), or generals (Alexander Suvorov, Mikhail Kutuzov, Fedor Ushakov, Ivan Konev, Rodion Malinovsky, or Konstantin Rokossovsky) – it is symptomatic of something larger. This pantheon ...