Operation Plunder

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The Battle of Chancellorsville showcased General Robert E. Lee’s strategic prowess with a Confederate army less than half the size of his Union opponents. The battle saw multiple flanks and ambushes, before the Union Army retreated in defeat.

The Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17th, 1989, took the lives of 67 people and injured more than 3,000 others during the 15-second, 6.9 magnitude quake that shook the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Gladiators of Rome were popular attractions around the 1st century A.D. luring bloodthirsty crowds to arenas like the Colosseum to witness the fight to the death combat and animal slaying.

On May 6th, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created The Works Progress Administration (WPA) to employ Americans in the construction of infrastructure projects during the darkest days of the Great Depression, when unemployment rates topped 20%.

The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age for African American writers, artists, and musicians who migrated to Harlem seeking affordable rents during the Great Migration.

Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer by profession, protestor by practice, and peaceful by nature. Gandhi left his mark on South Africa and his birth country, India, before being assassinated by a Hindu fanatic.

The Great Migration was a period during the 20th century when more than six million African Americans relocated from the segregated South to find opportunities and safety in less racist parts of the U.S.