Be inspired by fascinating men and women whose drive and determination transformed our country and our lives.
Ann Petry (1908-1997), Successful Novelist Read More »
As of January 1944 no African-American journalist had ever been admitted to a White House Press Conference. In February 1944, Harry McAlpin, a former Navy war correspondent and reporter for
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One of the first African American frontiersmen Prominent figure of the American West First “mountain man” to document his story in a book (1856) James Pierson Beckwourth was born in
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With so many men going overseas during World War II, the government needed ways to get additional help. In the Navy their solution was to create the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) in 1942. By creating it as an “emergency” service, the Navy was able to admit women to serve during the war years but at the end of the war the plan was that the women would be discharged.
Just as Steven Spielberg filmed a little-known story of Lincoln and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, two other filmmakers, screenwriting duo Nina and Salvador Litvak, found themselves fascinated by another untold story of Lincoln — the one told by his dear friend and self-appointed bodyguard, Ward Hill Lamon.
The Other Lincoln Movie: Saving Lincoln Read More »
Today on President Barack Obama’s second inauguration is a good time to look back at other presidential inaugurations: Abraham Lincoln’s first inauguration was held on March 4, 1861. There were
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