This topical category is for articles and content that focus on U.S. history.
〜Examining the story and text of George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation〜
Remembering the war to which Veterans Day owes its date with a harrowing story of a “double quarantine”
〜The meaning of “perfect” in “a more perfect union”〜
“It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge…” -Douglas MacArthur
Calvin Coolidge tells an interesting story about the rescue of a shipwrecked Japanese boy and the beginning of U.S.-Japan relations.
On July 4, 1888, Benjamin Harrison accepted the Republican nomination for president from his home, and then received some special guests.
〜A big league look at president birthday facts〜
“In the land he loved next to his own he will always lie, content that he gave his all to a cause that was so near to his heart.”