From the American Revolution in 1775 to the Ukraine War in 2023, here are the most important events in the history of the US. Read on for interesting details.
What finally persuaded President Truman to use the atomic bomb on Japan? What years did Harry Truman serve as president? What did President Truman do for the civil rights movement? What major events happened during Rutherford B. Hayes' presidency? What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
Events in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Louisiana Pre-colonial and colonial Louisiana spans the time period between the arrival of the first Paleoindians and the end of European colonialism. During these two periods in United States history, indigenous peoples arrived in Louisiana and Europeans began expl...
For example, New York City and the Path to Freedom documents designated buildings associated with the multiple ways people and institutions engaged with the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. This story map features a selection of landmarks and historic districts designated in recognition ...
After the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, Southern states started seceding from the Union, fearing he would immediately abolish slavery. The Civil War subsequently broke out in 1861, and lasted until 1865. The period after the Civil War is known as Reconstruction. ...
during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), turned on a non-Stalinist militia group called the Workers’ Party of the Marxist Unification (POUM)—despite the fact that they were both fighting Francoist fascism. Orwell, who was a member of the POUM and a staunch democratic socialist, tried to...
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation. —Eudora Welty 34 By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion...
larger figure, its head and back cut off by the edge of the paper. Oppenheim’s penchant for sinisterly enigmatic subjects during her early years in the Surrealist circle in Paris is evident. At the same time, the work can be seen as a premonition of the terrible events of World War ...
seen to appear willfully dormant re the Definitive Map Review (Uffculme) [by acting contrary to what an informed person would expect]; the statements made by the Uffculme Parish Council representatives for & during the events of public inquiries of (the period) 2005 to 2012, do not ring true...
Events and placesbecome significant and impose themselves upon the imagination not directly orthrough a single encounter, but rather refracted through other events–“lookingglass events”(Ghosh 1989, 225). This is as true for public as for private events.The riot that kills Tridib in 1964 in ...