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Black Woman Who Once Catered a Dinner for President Franklin D. Roosevelt Turns 110 Years Old
BlackNews.com· 5 days agoMeet Louise Thompson, an African American woman from Fairbanks, Alaska who was born in 1914 before...
Opinion: Destined to be a lame duck
CNN via AOL· 12 hours agoRepublicans couldn’t defeat President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he ran for a third and fourth term. But in 1947, ...
On this day in history, June 22, 1944, FDR signs GI Bill, with far-reaching impact on American...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOn this day in history, June 22, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the GI Bill of Rights,...
From the Border to Bump Stocks, the MAGA Lie Machine Is Heating Up
New Republic· 6 days agoIn response, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, on October 23, 1940, warned the nation: “Truthful...
How the Right’s Illiberal Past Became Present | Washington Monthly
Washington Monthly· 4 hours agoRoosevelt. “The terror of the unforeseen,” Roth wrote, “is what the science of history hides,...
This Day In History
The Wahpeton Daily News· 2 days agoOn June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed ...
Olympic legends: from Jesse Owens to Bob Beamon - Part 2
AFP via Yahoo Sports· 48 minutes agoAFP continues its look back at the history of the Olympics to pick out some of the legends that have...
Warm Springs police chief fired; all officers suspended
WAGA fox local articles via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAn investigation has led to the termination of Warm Springs Police Chief Emilio Quintana and the...
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
IEEE Spectrum· 6 days agoAmong the observers was Vannevar Bush, who had overseen the Manhattan Project and served as the sole liaison to U.S. President Franklin D
‘Triumph’ Showcases Jesse Owens’ Dominance Over Hitler at the 1936 Olympics
Biography via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoJesse Owens is considered the greatest track and field athlete in history. Read about his 1936...