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By 1871, Chicago was the fastest-growing city in the United States. In 1833, it had been little more ...

It was a summer day in Washington, D.C., when President Woodrow Wilson signed a brief but powerful act ...

On the morning of August 21, 1959, the sun rose over the Pacific as it always had, casting ...

On a hot Wednesday afternoon in Washington, D.C., President Franklin D. Roosevelt sat at his desk in the ...

At exactly 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981, television did something it had never done before. A grainy ...

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, known to the world as Jackie Kennedy, was more than just the First Lady of ...

When Ford Motor Company sold the first unit of its new Model A in July 1927, it was ...

On July 20, 1969, millions of people around the world watched as the United States became the first ...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, also known as the Battle of the Greasy Grass by the Lakota ...

On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain—a bold and divisive act that would ...

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, at the head of approximately ...