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U.S.-Russia relations have uneasy history
The Monroe News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe war in Ukraine has reduced U.S. relations with Russia to a low point. It’s the latest chapter in a checkered history between the Americans and...
Today in History MON JAN 02
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoToday in History Today is Monday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2023. There are 363 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 2, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts launched ...
Greta Samwel: NATIONAL COLUMN: Kissinger nimbly managed a Cold War that needed winning, not managing
The Norman Transcript, Okla. via Yahoo News· 5 months agoDec. 1—The roster of this nation's secretaries of state includes many giants of public attainment — Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, James Madison, James Monroe, Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel ...
How Savings Bank of Utica was born: This week in Mohawk Valley history
Utica Observer-Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year ago1839, 184 years ago Milestone in May A 24-year-old Irishman from Boonville named John Hurley enters...
Howey: A former president claims divine providence
South Bend Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAccording to the campaign of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump, the former commander-in-chief has divine providence. “And on June 14,...
Lincoln’s lost lecture
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 1 month ago“All creation is a mine, and every man, a miner.” So begins one of the least-known speeches by Abraham Lincoln, the “Lecture on Discoveries and...
Memorial Day reminds us that sacrifices should not be vain | GARY COSBY JR.
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 12 months agoMemorial Day is a reminder of the sacrifices our warriors have made on behalf of the nation, but it...
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln relocated 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island as a part of an...
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLincoln tried to resettle 453 newly freed Black Americans on a cotton farm on Île à Vache. The...