U.S. History - to 1945

From the beginning of his presidency, Calvin Coolidge made civil rights one of his administration’s top priorities, as is seen not only in h...

The civil rights movement has long understood the importance of education. Indeed, although the era from the early 1950s to the late 1960s i...

The presidency of Calvin Coolidge marked a high point for civil rights. Coolidge took several significant actions designed to help African-A...

During the U.S. presidential election of 1924, the Ku Klux Klan was one of several issues to gain public attention. The Klan had significant...

When the Great Depression started in late 1929 and early 1930, it soon became clear that long-established patterns would not suffice to sust...

In American History, most of the 1800s can be divided into three time spans: the prewar years, the Civil War, and the postwar years. But whi...

During a few decades in the late 1800s and early 1900s, most homes in the United States were connected to electrical power. This development...