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What’s so important about the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Author: Sophia Cabana Interviewer: Katherine Dillman Sophia Cabana investigates the battle between religious establishment and religious liberty in Virginia, telling the story of how the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom came to be. She also explains...
Jonestown: How Can One Man Lead People to The Largest Mass Suicide In History?
Author: Bryce Livi Interviewer: Chase Abraham On November 18, 1978, 900 members of The People’s Temple movement willingly drank “Kool-Aid” mixed with cyanide in what is known as the largest mass suicide in human history. One of the many unanswered...
How Does a Bombing Get Forgotten?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/109799466@N06/32539200996 Ramona Africa Speaking on the life of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution at the Historic Church of the Advocate (28 January, 2017) Image by Joe Piette Author: Charles Abraham Interviewer: Bryce Livi On May...
How did Japanese-Americans handle themselves during a time of great persecution?
Manzanar Relocation Center in Winter, 1943. Author: Corey Knight Interviewer: Reese Manning The bombing at Pearl Harbor rippled fear throughout the US and ultimately led to the evacuation of Japanese-Americans to Internment camps in the West. This fear, along with...
Did France Truly Fall?
Volunteer of the French Resistance interior force (FFI) at Châteaudun in 1944. Germany occupied France on June 22nd, 1940, early on in World War II, and held power over them until the war ended in 1944. Do to their occupation, Frenchmen had to adjust...
Did America Fight the Filipinos for nothing but Racism?
"Not in Position to Give Up the Chace" appeared in the Washington Post May,1 1899 In 1899 America ratified a treaty with Spain in which they paid twenty million dollars to take control of the Philippines. Soon the United States was waging war against...
What Was The Significance Of The Sacco And Vanzetti Trial?
Author: Emma Fantuzzo Interviewer: Mary Besecky Amidst the Palmer Raids and the Red Scare of the 1920's, two Italian Anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would be tried and convicted of armed robbery and murder. A case that sparked national...
Why Did Andrew Carnegie Donate Millions For Libraries?
Author: Mary Besecky Interviewer: Emma Fantuzzo During the Gilded Age, a select few people made immense fortunes. One of them was Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant, who became a steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest people in America at the time. Carnegie gave...
What Were the Motivations to Forcibly Sterilize American Citizens?
Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma Buck, at the Virginia Colony for Epileptic and Feebleminded Women in Lynchburg in 1924. Author: Haley McAllister Interviewer: Spencer Law Between 1880 and 1940, negative eugenics reigned in Virginia through the legal...
What did the American Expeditionary Forces contribute in World War I?
The First World War is an often-overlooked conflict in American history. The United States served a limited role in the conflict but nevertheless strove to fight on equal terms with its European counterparts. The American Expeditionary Forces would serve as...
Why Was There Only One Man Executed After The Civil War?
Author: Jordan Layne Interviewer: Nick Seidel The American Civil War has made several names famous, one name that is not famous but still played a significant role is Henry Wirz. Wirz was known primarily for two things, being a Confederate Captain in charge of the...
How did the Black Panther Party help the Black Community?
Author: Elainah Elkins Interviewer: Heath Hatfield The Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California in 1966. Despite how many perceived The Black Panther Party’s more radical approach to combat discrimination, the party’s goals and platform...
What Does It Take to End a Plague?
ACT UP Activists at the National Institutes of Health Author: Spencer Law Interviewer: Haley McAllister On the heels of the sexual revolution, an unknown virus swept through the gay community in major cities across the United States. By 1989, more than...
What was Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars”?
Reagan's plan for ending the Cold War. In the early 1980's Ronald Reagan was approached about a defense strategy that would render nuclear missiles obsolete. The thought of ending the nuclear threat in the United States and ending the Cold War were two...
What Difference did WWII Propaganda Make?
Author: Kyle Hogan Interviewer: Maurice Fletcher In 1942 it was apparent that America needed some way of organizing its wartime information and propaganda. In order to manage these things President Roosevelt created the Office of War Information and...