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if not for the Civil War which helped in abolishing slavery, would the persistence of slavery had made the US economy richer than it is now?
While most Americans know of the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, not many know much about other facets of the fight for a women’s right to have an abortion.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s till his death in 1953. After his death, arguments and debates emerged over whether his policies helped the advancement of the Soviet Union at all.
Americans watched with great concern as what they initially thought to be a nationalist revolution slowly turned into a communist one, just ninety miles from their borders.
On the morning of October 14, Major Richard Heyser entered the Cuban airspace in a U-2, the preferred reconnaissance plane of the United States Air Force (USAF) during the Cold War, for a routine surveillance run over Cuba.
Everyone remembers Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first people to reach the Moon. Yet, the real magic happened on the ground, and one of the most notable figures who led to the success of NASA’s Apollo 11 was Katherine Johnson.
Yalta Conference was a diplomatic meeting of the Allied Powers; USSR, United Kingdom, and the US held at Yalta, Crimea
Imagine two hundred years of peace and quiet. From 27 BCE to 180 CE, people in Rome lived in harmony. This period is known as the Pax Romana, or Pax Augusta.
“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind,” said Mahatma Gandhi.
The genocide and mass murder of 1.5 million Armenians was a shock to people all across Europe, as a genocide of such a terrible scale seemed unbelievable.
magine a party that lasts for nine years. Seems quite impossible, right? The roaring 20s was a period from 1920 to 1929, where everyone was care-free, prospering, and happy.
On a cold winters’ night in November 1891, 23-year-old Maria Skłodowska rode 40 hours on a train from Warsaw, Poland to Paris, seeking a college education, then seen as an exceptionally divergent move for a girl.
Previous elections, notably the Kennedy vs Nixon election (1960) and the Bush vs Gore election (2000), have greatly transformed the way American voters perceive their role in politics.
In 2009, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama became the first African-American First Lady of the United States. Since the day she set foot in the White House, she became a beacon of hope for women of color all over America.
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassai