Why did Schurz oppose the Philippines' annexation? Why did the Virginia Company establish settlements in North America? Why was the annexation of Texas important for the U.S.? Why did the newly formed United States need to convene the Constitutional Convention?
Why did Christopher Columbus, who never set foot on North America, get a national holiday in his name This is in sharp contrast to Juan Ponce de Leon (who arrived in Florida in 1513), Alonso Alvarez de Pineda (whose ships arrived in what’s now known as Corpus Christi Bay in Texas in...
Why didn't anti-slavery leaders support the annexation of Texas? Why were slaves taken from Africa? Why was the extended family important to slaves in the U.S.? Why did the Fugitive Slave Act anger Northerners? Why did Europeans participate in the Atlantic slave trade?
power of driven set of circumstances. And I think we're moving. We know it's more like that than it was. And we see the dot plot. And if you look at history, so that's what I'm saying, I think is pretty clearly going on. I mean, why did they move from California to Texas...
Hernandez, a sales associate in Houston, who immigrated to the United States from her native Columbia 13 years ago, had been infected with COVID-19 when her unvaccinated 3-year-old son passed it along after contracting it -- as did his teachers and eight of his 11 classmates -- as he ...
The Electoral College was never intended to be the “perfect” system for picking the president, saysGeorge Edwards III, emeritus political science professor at Texas A&M University. “It wasn’t like the Founders said, ‘Hey, what a great idea! This is the preferred way to select the chie...
just 20 percent or so of adult Americans drink 9 out of every 10 bottles of wine sold in the U.S. That’s why I was anointed the Wine Curmudgeon more than a decade ago by the food editor at the Star-Telegram newspaper in Forth Worth, Texas. My job, then as now — to speak for...
If you head east of Abilene, you'll find the community ofClyde, Texas. The town is small but boasts big opportunities. In fact, locals refer to the town as "Clyde, America". Ever wondered why it's called that? Keep reading.
Either it did so in coordination with the shooter, or not. If not, surveillance would have had to penetrate his detailed planning (and his planning would have had to be detailed, down to the exact spot on the sidewalk where he would hit the target and the time, for them to discover ...
How Did New Hampshirites Vote in Past Primaries? Trump, as the incumbent president,wonthe 2020 Republican primary in New Hampshire in a landslide. His closest competitor wasformer Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The Democraticresultsthat year were predictably closer. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont ...