# American History
20 Successes and Failures of the American Space Program in the 1960s
America’s space program did not begin in the 1960s, but through the medium of television and the growing discipline of…
20 Various Tales from American Folklore
American folklore actually predates the United States, with personages and places achieving legendary or mythic status before the 1775 “shot…
Governments Used to Pay For Native American Scalps Which Made Scalping a Booming Business
In 1641, Willem Kieft, director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, offered a friendly Native American tribe a disturbing…
16 Terrible People Who Knew How to Lay on the Charm or Inspire Others
In the movies and on TV, bad guys are usually depicted as clear cut baddies, personally repellent and often cartoonishly…
20 Events and People in the Evolution of Televised News in the United States
Today news – much of it presented as opinion rather than the relating of facts – is available 24 hours…
The World War II Triple Agent Who Inspired James Bond
Few people have ever have led a life as extraordinary or as impactful as did the Serb Dusan "Dusko" Popov…
20 Events Across the Globe which Evolved from the American Revolution
The American Revolutionary War is remembered as citizen-soldiers battling the professional troops of Great Britain and its German mercenary allies…
16 Dramatic and Impactful Assassinations from History
By their very nature, assassinations are not only dramatic events, but ones also capable of shaping history or altering its…
20 Steps in Planning for the Invasion of Japan in 1945
Of all the major military operations conducted by the Allies during the Second World War, none was more formidable than…
Texas’ Most Decorated World War I Hero Was an Undocumented Mexican Immigrant
Marcelino Serna, one of the United States' greatest heroes of World War I, was an undocumented Mexican immigrant. Throughout his…