Author:Interviewer:Ravaged by war, the Southern states in 1865 was a hotbed of division and anxiety. Four million black individuals found themselves free, but what was freedom in the face of the rich and poor whites of the South, who desired nothing more than to see...
Author: Mathew ReidInterviewer: Paige BaileyFrom 1967 to 1974, millions of American men returned from the Vietnam War to an ungrateful nation. The war was a politically divisive conflict in the United States, and it spawned vicious anti-war sentiments that sometimes...
Author: Grace Gordon Interviewer: Kathleen Brett The science of eugenics, or classifying and grouping people into the categories of genetically “inferior” and “superior,” thrived during the first two decades of the 19th century in America. Eugenics argued...
Author: Kathleen BrettInterviewer: Grace GordonFormer vice president and political figure Aaron Burr was one of the most ambitious and controversial Americans of the early 18th century. After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Burr went on to plot against the...
Author: Paige BaileyInterviewer: Mathew ReidOn the night of January 30/31, 1968, communist forces totaling about 84,000 sprang from hiding to surprise U.S. military and ARVN forces across South Vietnam. Gunfire abruptly ended the Tet holiday ceasefire in 105 South...
Author: Blake PearsallInterviewer: Gretchen Shahriari The Civilian Conservation Corps was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s experimental answer to the nation’s impoverished and under-educated youth. The nation’s young boys between the ages of 18...
