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Today is Friday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2011. There are 141 days left in the year.
Today is Monday, Aug. 8, the 220th day of 2011. There are 145 days left in the year.
California's secretary of state on Tuesday cleared a group to begin collecting signatures for a ballot referendum to overturn a first-in-the-nation law requiring public schools to teach the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies lessons
Today is Sunday, July 31, the 212th day of 2011. There are 153 days left in the year.
Back home, where Rick Sluder is the police chief of a village of 3,000 surrounded by corn and soybean fields, traffic wouldn't be an issue. But this morning, at the helm of a rented van mired in a New York City traffic jam thicker than the summer heat, he's way out of his jurisdiction.
Every semester, Cheryl Carpenter tries to think of new ways to introduce Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" to her college students.
Today is Saturday, July 23, the 204th day of 2011. There are 161 days left in the year.
A family advocacy group is already challenging a new California law that adds lessons about gays to social studies classes.
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.
Today is Friday, July 15, the 196th day of 2011. There are 169 days left in the year.
California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.
Today is Thursday, July 7, the 188th day of 2011. There are 177 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, June 29, the 180th day of 2011. There are 185 days left in the year.
As she began a tour on Friday to learn about the brutality of apartheid, 17-year-old Boipelo Ndaba was skeptical that anything good would come of learning about that dark chapter of South Africa's past that she's too young to have experienced herself.
U.S. students don't know much about American history.
Today is Tuesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2011. There are 193 days left in the year. Day. Summer arrives at 1:16 p.m. EDT.
Today is Monday, June 13, the 164th day of 2011. There are 201 days left in the year.
Today is Sunday, June 5, the 156th day of 2011. There are 209 days left in the year.
It's moving and mating season for Florida's estimated 1.3 million alligators, and experts are warning locals as well as tourists to stay out of the way.
Today is Saturday, May 28, the 148th day of 2011. There are 217 days left in the year.
Today is Friday, May 20, the 140th day of 2011. There are 225 days left in the year.
Documents from gay rights history are on display for the first time at the Library of Congress as part of an exhibit on the nation's constitutional history and civil rights protections.
Today is Thursday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2011. There are 233 days left in the year.
Today is Wednesday, May 4, the 124th day of 2011. There are 241 days left in the year.
Today is Tuesday, April 26, the 116th day of 2011. There are 249 days left in the year.
Looking back on American history in the twentieth century, perhaps no other event of that century has played as great a role in demonstrating the American character as has the Great Depression. While most people tend to look at the Great Depression as only one economic crash, in …
Archaeologists uncover 25,000 year old pendant in SpainA pendant some 25,000 years old has been found in the Irikaitz dig in northern Spain's Basque region by archaeologists from the Sociedad Aranzadi. The piece, an oblong gray smooth stone some 10 centimeters (4 inches) in length, is perforated at one end and apparently was hung fr …
Marco Polo Never Reached China and Picked up Tales of the Orient from OthersMarco Polo, one of history’s greatest explorers, may in fact have been a conman, it was claimed yesterday. Far from being a trader who spent years in China and the Far East, he probably never went further east than the Black Sea, according to a team of archaeologists. They …
NATION, LOTTIE. INTERVIEW 1O31« 121 BIOGRAPHY FCHM ,' . WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION. Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma Lottie Nation INTERVIEW. 10319, Zaidee B.
1. I've heard it said with increasing fervor that, from its inception, the United States of America was conceptualized and created as a 'Christian' nation, and that the Founders' religious beliefs mirrored those of present-day evangelical Christians.
A History Of US Secret Human ExperimentationSecret human experimentation is definitely the stuff of nightmares. Matters are made worse when goverment is responsible for these nightmares.
John Hanson First President of the United States: George Washington Had 7 Presidential PredecessorsGeorge Washington is entrenched in history as being the first President of the United States of America. Or was he? Some historians want to credit John Hanson as being the first president of the country.
History of CapitalismCapitalism is not a form of government. It is an economic term associated with the creation of wealth.
Orphan Trains - HistoryThe story of this ambitious and finally controversial effort to rescue poor and homeless children begins in the 1850s, when thousands of children roamed the streets of New York in search of money, food and shelter--prey to disease and crime.
God In America: The Black Church in HistoryThe term "the black church" evolved from the phrase "the Negro church," the title of a pioneering sociological study of African American Protestant churches at the turn of the century by W.E.B. Du Bois. In its origins, the phrase was largely an academic category.
Baseball's First Female Owner In 1911 when Helene Britton's uncle died, she inherited control of the St. Louis Cardinals, and she defied all expectations and decided to own and oversee the team herself which she did for six years from 1911 until 1918."
Dr. James McCune Smith: First African-American Doctor in the United States Receiving a medical degree is a great achievement in itself. For James McCune Smith, an African-American, to become a Medical Doctor years before the American Civil War was not typical of the times in which he lived.
A Brief Dry Spell for the U.S.S. MonitorMilitary secrecy was a bit lax during the Civil War, by today’s standards, but contractor deadlines were a lot tighter. The technology that revolutionized naval warfare began with a five-sentence message delivered to The New York Times 150 years ago, on Aug.
American Indians 101: Heathens on the Nez Perce Reservation When Ulysses S. Grant assumed the Presidency, he inherited a major problem with regard to the administration of the Indian reservations.
Branding & Cupping by Fakir Musafar (Body Play Online)Kiss Of Fire: The ABC's Of Branding "Kiss of Fire" is the title I used for an article in the very first issue of BODY PLAY way back in 1992. At that time, very few people had brands or did any branding.
NAMM Oral History ProgrammeNAMM's oral history project aims to capture the words of the great and the good of the industry for prosperity, with former radio DJ Dan Del Fiorentino
Former CBO Directors Say Spending-Cut Trigger Easy to CircumventCongress may undermine the deal that raised the U.S. debt ceiling by failing to agree on a plan to curb the deficit and then softening the impact of automatic spending cuts that would kick in to achieve the budget targets.
Much discussion, rhetoric and comparisons have been made of the financial problems of Greece and the US. I was asked what I thought about one problem in particular, the privatization of the Greek Electric Power Company.
Anthropologist believes he has found Canadian village that may be 10,000 years old When Farid Rahemtulla and his anthropology students began to dig in the forest floor on Calvert Island, he pretty much knew what to expect – lots of clam and mussel shells. But shortly after the team from the University of Northern British Columbia started to sink pits int …
Jane White, Broadway actress who broke color barriers, dead at 88Jane White, an actress who was the daughter of a civil rights activist and prominent NAACP official, has died.
First Black Secret Service Agent Dies at Age 82harles L. Gittens, who in 1956 became the first black Secret Service agent, has died. He was 82. The McGuire Funeral Home in Washington confirmed that Gittens died July 27 in Maryland.
So then what happened to Edward IVs expanding backside sitting comfortably on that throne, you might ask? Edward, who was 28 at the time of Tewkesbury's triumph, got to be 40 years of age. Along the way he ate, drank, made merry, chased wenches, got fat, cut a deal a …
seeded by Shaheen Sultan Dhanji - Che Guevara a True StoryArgentinian doctor; joined Castro in Mexico in 1954; a leader of the 1956-59 Cuban Revolution.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." -- t …
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