As America entered the Great War, suffragists turned President Wilson’s hypocritical pleas for democracy elsewhere in the world into a potent weapon at home.
On the eve of the nation’s first presidential inauguration, President-elect George Washington was preoccupied by an urgent and troublesome matter: What would he wear to his swearing-in ceremony in New York City?
Hundreds of federal agents surround a cabin where a family holes up in fear. The standoff stretches on until the government gets help from an unlikely source.
Ruth Schwab was working at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City when a bomb detonated by Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people. She shares her thoughts on the bombing and her life after.
