The History & the Present of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe
During the 19th Century, the Northern Cheyenne people made a number of treaties with the United States government, but the U.S. repeatedly failed to honor its end of the treaties. In November 1876, th...
23 Okt 202340min
The Borinqueneers of the Korean War
In 1950, President Harry Truman ordered US troops to the Korean peninsula to help the South Koreans repel the invading North Korean People’s Army, which was supported by the communist regimes of the S...
16 Okt 202338min
The Student Right in the late 1960s
In the late 1960s, as college campuses became hotbeds of liberal protest, conservative college groups, like the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists (ISI), the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), ...
9 Okt 202344min
The History of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
At the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women, a group of women, led by writer Betty Friedan and organizer and attorney Pauli Murray, decided that to make progress they needed...
2 Okt 202347min
The Murder of Maria Cornell
When farmer John Durfee found the body of a local factory girl hanging from a fence post on his property on the morning of December 21, 1832, he and the rest of the townspeople assumed she had died by...
25 Sep 202345min
The Great New York City Fire of 1776
Just days after British troops captured New York City from General Washington and his army in September 1776, fire broke out, destroying a fifth of the city. The British blamed rebels who had remained...
18 Sep 202345min
The History of Drag in New York City
RuPaul’s Drag Race first aired on TV in 2009, but the New York City drag scene that launched RuPaul started over a century earlier. From drag balls to Wigstock, New York has long been considered the c...
11 Sep 202344min
Thomas Smallwood and the Underground Railroad
Over the course of just one year in the early 1840s, Thomas Smallwood, a recently emancipated Black man, with the assistance of the New England educated white abolitionist Charles Torrey, arranged for...
4 Sep 202355min
