Feb. 20 1792: President George Washington signed an act creating the United States Post Office Department, the predecessor of the U.S. Postal Service. 1907: President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded “idiots, imbeciles, […]
Feb. 13 1945: Allied forces in World War II began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden, Germany, killing as many as 25,000 people and triggering a firestorm that swept through the city center. 1935: A […]
Feb. 6 1778: During the American Revolutionary War, the United States won official recognition and military support from France with the signing of a Treaty of Alliance in Paris. 1862: During the Civil War, Fort […]
Jan. 30 1649: England’s King Charles I was executed for high treason. 1933: Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. 1948: Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in […]
Jan. 16 1865: Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land in the South would be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order inspired the expression, “40 […]
Jan. 2 1942: The Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during World War II. 1959: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 1 launched, becoming the first spacecraft to escape Earth’s gravity. 2016: An armed […]
These transformational events in history happened this week. Dec. 12 1870: Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina became the first black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives. 2000: George W. Bush became president-elect […]
George Orwell said, “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” In the former USSR, censorship, rewriting of history and eliminating undesirable people became part […]
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The weathered old sign that once served as a beacon to travelers along a stretch of Route 66 just outside of New Mexico’s largest city has been taken down and will be […]
Sometimes seemingly easy questions are the most difficult to answer. For instance, have you ever asked: “What is the United States?” Many people think they know the answer and have dogmatic opinions. Yet ask them […]
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