A black man from Haiti named Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable (1745-1818) founded the city of Chicago.
In 1772, Du Sable founded a settlement called Eschikagou on the north bank of the Chicago River. However, he was not officially recognized as the city’s founder until 1968.
Both Tin Lizzie and The Flivver were nicknames for the Model T, introduced by Henry Ford in 1908.
At the outset of President George Washington’s first term (1789-93), they were: Thomas Jefferson—Secretary of State Alexander Hamilton—Secretary of the Treasury Henry Knox—Secretary of War Edmund Randolph—Attorney General
The devastating march across Georgia known as Sherman’s March began in the occupied city of Atlanta on November 11, 1864, and ended with the capture of Savannah on the Atlantic Ocean on December 21. Along the way, Sherman ransacked the countryside, looting, burning, and tearing up railroads.
The Great Depression in the 19th century was the worldwide period of deflation that lasted from 1873 to 1897 and caused erratic fluctuations in economic activity in the U.S. Unlike the Great Depression of the 1930s, it was not marked by low productivity.
A 1908 race riot in Springfield, Massachusetts, reported by liberal New York journalist W.E. Walling inspired him to help found a national organization to speak out on behalf of equality for African-Americans. After a meeting with other concerned citizens in his apartment, including social worker Mary W. Ovington, the National Association for the Advancement of…
Eighty men, aboard 16 B-25 Mitchell bombers, took part in Doolittle’s 1942 raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942. Launched from the carrier USS Hornet, the planes bombed five Japanese cities: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Osaka. The raid rattled the Japanese and boosted American morale at a time when Japan seemed invincible.