With America’s entry into World War I, Decoration Day shed once and for all its distinct association...
Day: May 25, 2020
Going back to May 30, 1868, with “Decoration Day”. Introduction Three years after the Civil War ended,...
From the outbreak of war with Napoleonic France, Britain had enforced a naval blockade to choke off...
In the first years after the Revolutionary War, Americans found it difficult to acknowledge a debt or...
When intolerant white people fear out constitution may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to it....
Jamestown quickly began expanding beyond the boundaries of the three-sided fort first built on the banks of...
The site for Jamestown was picked for several reasons, all of which met criteria the Virginia Company,...