“We’ve got so many details with this site that tell us what happened moment by moment, it’s almost like watching it play out in the movies. You look at the rock column, you look at the fossils there, and it brings you back to that day,” Robert DePalma, the University of Manche...
A party that combined both these traditions eventually migrated to New Year’s Day and evolved into a series of neighborhood parades. Then, as immigrants moved to the area from Ireland and Italy, each group added its own cultural flair to the local custom. ...
What Happened at the Wounded Knee Massacre? White settlers feared the Lakota’s Ghost Dance presaged an armed uprising. But US troops carried out the bloodbath. Caroline Weldon: A White Woman’s Doomed Effort to Save Sitting Bull In the late 1880s, Weldon was vilified as a harpy who was...
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 gave the citizens of Kansas the opportunity to determine if it would be free or slave through popular sovereignty. Anti-slavery people poured into the state, while pro-slavery settlers and Missourians moved in to sway the election of a pro-slavery...
This article is mainly about what happened to the Cherokee. “By 1838, I had become an expert rifleman and a good trapper. I was a young man ready for a new life, so I signed up to be a private in the American Army. In the same year, the Cherokee Indians were being moved from ...
because the Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause gave the slaveowner standing in federal court to reclaim the runaway slave in any State where he could be found. SeePrigg v. Pennslyvaniacited inWhat Happened in May 1862. As long as the slaveowner can prove his title to the "property" the...
What event happened before the Indian Removal Act? What is the Tea Party Movement? What power did the Indian Removal Act give Congress? What did the Indian Removal Act lead to? What is the importance of the Indian Independence Act? What tribes tried to assemble during the Indian Removal Act...
Amanyarais a memorable stay if you can swing it. This five-star beachside resort in Providenciales is set on the shores of an 18,000-acre nature reserve overlooking North West Point Marine National Park, meaning guests are treated to the ultimate in secluded island luxury. Black infinity pools...
My second unexpected highlight happened during my day-trip to historic sites in downtown Honolulu. I reached them using the island’s reliable and renown local public transit system called “TheBus.” Downtown Honolulu seemed like a ghost town when I went there my second day on the island....
The exodus of Black West Indians from the islands to what is considered a land of more promise is the premise of this sweeping tale from Phillips, who was born in St. Kitts but moved with his family when he was four months old. Phillips’s return to the island—when he was 22—inspir...