President Franklin Pierce is not one of the well-known presidents of the United States, so I thought I would write about him today. He fought in the Mexican War of…
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The Treaty of Versailles was created as a result of World War I. This treaty wanted to see the nations of the world work together in a gathering of national…
Over 250 years ago, the people who risked the voyage across the ocean to come to America wanted freedom. They wanted a government that was run by the people’s votes,…
Anne Hutchinson was an Englishwoman who was born in 1591. With her husband and their 11 children, they sailed to the New World because they wanted religious freedom, and they…
Do you remember where you were that day, the morning of September 11, 2001? I was in college and had stopped my father-in-law’s office that morning. We sat quietly in…
Women had been fighting for the right to vote since our country’s beginning. In the early 1900s, President Woodrow Wilson had been understanding towards women’s fight for the right to…
Polynesian voyagers were the first people to come to Hawaii in the 700s. Then in the 1700s, American traders came to Hawaii to take the islands’ sandalwood and sell it…
President Roosevelt became president during the Great Depression, the nation’s worst economic crisis. He had promised “New Deal” programs, like the Works Progress Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the…
On August 7, 1964, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was passed. The resolution said that that the Johnson administration could do whatever they thought was best to defend Southeast Asia during…