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August 20, 2020
The Gilded Age
The American Gilded Age, a time when industrialist robber barons controlled the money, while the majority of Americans worked long hours for little pay.
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August 19, 2020
Hitler’s Atlantic Wall
The construction of the Nazi’s Atlantic Wall was a network of fortifications that spanned 2,000 miles of Atlantic coastline in Western Europe.
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August 18, 2020
Yellow Fever: Causes, Symptoms, Vaccine, and History
Yellow Fever is one of the deadliest killers in infectious disease history. Learn the cause, symptoms, and discovery of a vaccine.
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August 17, 2020
Salem Witch Trials: When, Why, and How Many Victims
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 pitted neighbor against neighbor as long-simmering jealousies and resentments were given a thinly-veiled outlet for revenge.
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August 14, 2020
Ben Franklin’s Virtues
The thirteen virtues of Ben Franklin, a founding father, inventor, and thinker, which established moral codes for people to live by.
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August 13, 2020
The Barbary Slave Trade
Barbary Slave Trade where an approximate 1.2 million white Europeans were enslaved in Africa.
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August 12, 2020
History of Malaria
Malaria was one of the worst killers of mankind until its etiology was figured out by scientists in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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