Because GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives date back centuries, we can discover the origin stories of a bedrock American principle: freedom of the press. One such story involves…
Jane Hampton Cook spoke with History Camp about her book Resilience on Parade.
Sixty years ago, two presidential candidates took to a Chicago stage for America’s first televised presidential debate. One candidate was Vice President Richard Nixon. The…
Have other presidents become ill during a pandemic, similar to President Trump’s contraction of COVID-19? President George Washington did not catch yellow fever during the…
Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, has already faced anti-Christian bigotry. “The dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern,” Senate Judiciary…
Jane Hampton Cook is asked to reflect on Justice Ginsburg on Fox News. She shares about the impact the Holocaust had on Ginsburg when she…
“The left’s war on police, faith, history and American values is tearing our country apart, which is what they want,” President Trump told reporters on…
The newspaper headlines couldn’t have been more nail biting 100 years ago in mid-August 1920: only one more state was needed to ratify the 19th…
President Trump announced Tuesday that he will issue a posthumous pardon to Susan B. Anthony, a suffrage leader. Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in 1872 and subsequently put…
Women in all states won the universal right to vote one hundred years ago through the ratification of the United States Constitution’s 19th Amendment in…