What made Confederate spy Belle Boyd’s exploits during the American Civil War (1861-1865) extraordinary was the fact she was a teenager from a well-to-do family in the South. After overhearing...
The Civil Rights Movement in America produced a variety of leaders with different character traits and leadership styles. But the common denominator among those people was their unwavering dedication to...
Date: March 1765 – January 1791 Location: The Thirteen American Colonies (also known as the Thirteen British Colonies) – New England (New Hampshire; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Connecticut); Middle (New York; New Jersey; Pennsylvania; Delaware); Southern (Maryland; Virginia; North...
African-American civil rights activist, journalist and editor Roy Wilkins was a highly regarded member of the Civil Rights Movement in America. Originally starting as a journalist, Wilkins would go on...
When the British Parliament passed the Tea Act in May 1773, the goal was to help the financially struggling British East India Company. The company, also known as the East...
In 1870, at a time when the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877) was in its second decade, two sisters and renowned members of the women’s suffrage movement Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin...
Abraham Lincoln. Jefferson Davis. Harriet Tubman. Ulysses S. Grant. Who is the most famous person of the American Civil War Era? In the four-year war, Union Army predominantly in the...
Renowned for being the author of the famous 19th-century novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American author and educator who fought tirelessly with leading abolitionist to...
An iconic personality of the American literature whose works are known worldwide and have inspired several Hollywood films, Stephen King is a renowned author in the horror genre. The Maine,...
This American humorist, novelist and lecturer produced some of the most important works in the history of modern literature. With more than twenty novels to his name, many of them...
Louis Armstrong (born Aug. 4, 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana—died July 6, 1971, New York City, New York), American jazz artist who is unanimously considered as the greatest jazz player in...
Andrew Carnegie, one of America’s greatest business titans, is famed for not only building the greatest steel empire ever known in U.S. history, but he was also known for being...
A famed and astute military general in the U.S. Army, William Tecumseh Sherman’s heroics during Sherman’s March (during the American Civil War) in 1864 played an immeasurable role in bringing...
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), one of the richest men in the history of the United States, was the famous business magnate who founded the Standard Oil Company. By his mid-20s,...
There is no speck of doubt that 25th U.S. President William McKinley played a crucial role in steering the nation out of a depression in the late 19th century. Sadly...
