The story of the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 is one unknown to many, but one that needs to be told. The tragedy is one of America’s troubled history of racism and segregation, at the apex of white supremacy in America. The Greenwood District, or Black Wall Street...
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...
Author: Henry Ford VI Interviewer: Thomas Kidd Fleeing the violent, racist oppression of the postbellum South, thousands of African-Americans sought to create a community where they could flourish and survive independent of the society that rejected...
