When was Abraham Lincoln elected president? When did Andrew Young Jr. die? When and where was George Washington inaugurated as president? When was James Garfield elected president? When did William H. Taft die? When was FDR president?
When was Harriet Jacobs freed? When was Martin Luther King stabbed? When did Stokely Carmichael join the Black Panthers? When did Homer Plessy die? When did MLK Day become a holiday? When was Abraham Lincoln elected to Congress? When did Coretta Scott King get married?
Inauguration Day was moved to January 20, with the Oath of Office to be administered at noon, when Congress ratified the 20th constitutional amendment in 1933. Reasons cited included the improved roads and transportation, the unpredictability of March weather, and the desire to reduce the time tha...
NASA was winning the technological battle but losing the mass appeal it needed to sustain human space exploration. In retrospect one mistake NASA made in the Public Relations aspects of Apollo was to never make an effort to let the world see the faces of people on the Moon out of fear of ...
Under the current system the Executive is not actually in change of the Executive Branch, and the deep state grows and metastasizes under the “you can’t touch this” civil service system. The spoils system certainly had issues, but at least it was accountable to someone who was elected. ...
s controversial and ultimatelyunsuccessful plantopackthe Supreme Court. As historianRobert Dallekwrote in his 1991biographyof Johnson, the aspiring congressman’s campaign “became a celebration of FDR and an appeal to the idea that Lyndon Johnson was the single candidate in the race ...
The location is less than half-a-mile north of Sunnyside. They reported a single-car crash, where the driver had apparently hit a brick building while traveling at a high rate of speed. The driver is deceased, it is not known if he died later at the scene or if he was deceased when...
The present Howard was educated at Clayesmore School, Dorset, and at University College in the University of Durham, where he took honors in Modern History. He has worked as an actor, educator and museum curator. In 1973, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London. He...
Brinkley Looks at FDR's Love of Land; When Franklin Delano Roosevelt Was Elected President in 1932, the United States Was in the Midst of the Great Depression. Millions Were out of Work, Banks Had Failed and Hopelessness and Despair Were Rampant. [Derived Headline]...
The future for employment looks bright. The gig economy is firing on all cylinders. The FOMC, in itsstatementconcerning its interest rate decision today, was practically gleeful about employment and where it’s headed: A range of recent indicators, including strong job gains, points to additional...