Known for such popular hit songs: “If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” and “Kisses Sweeter…
Year: 2014
The Trail of Tears
Millions of acres of American Indian ancestral land (in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida) was stolen by the…
European Town Graves Reveal Historical Clues
Two years following Christopher Columbus ‘s journey across the Atlantic in 1492, Columbus and colonists took off on a second trip.…
IBM Introduces the System/360
May the computers unite and with that revolutionary concept the IBM System/360 was born. Before the uniting of computers into…
Ebola Virus: One of Its Most Deadly Forms
The history of the Ebola virus is believed to date back to the beginning of our planet, though it was…
History Topics
America American Business American Flag American Indian Ancient History Ancient Philosophy Antarctic Expeditions Archaeology Architecture Archival Preservation Art History Black…
End of War Kiss
Glenn Edward McDuffie, a U.S. Navy sailor in World War II and believed to be the man in the famous kiss…
Ole Miss Riot
On Oct. 1, 1962 Mississippi University admitted James Meredith; their first black student. This Federally ordered act of integration resulted…
The Bubonic Plague is Alive and Well
When we think of the plague, we imagine ages gone by, the middle ages in particular, safely contained inside the texts of…
The Black Death
Timeline 430 B.C.- During the second year of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides writes about a disease that is believed to…
