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The 19th amendment to the US Constitution was originally proposed in 1923. It says: “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” Nearly 100…
The mining industry provides the raw materials needed by almost everything else in our economy. But it doesn’t employ that many people – just 670,000 Americans. Instead, it’s focusing on intelligent mining operations. More and more jobs are being done…
Part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program, the Farm Security Agency was created in 1937 to combat rural poverty. The FSA hired 11 photographers to document the state of farmers and their families. Their job was to capture…
Massive wildfires have become the “new normal” in the western United States, especially California. People wonder if the fires – and the huge areas affected by smoke – will lead to another Dust Bowl-type catastrophe. Will parts of the country…
The murder of Emmett Till on August 28, 1955, sparked the Civil Rights movement. Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who lived with his mother on Chicago’s South Side. He went to Mississippi to spend the summer with his…
In August 2018, Andrew Gillum won Florida’s Democratic primary for governor. That meant he would be on the ballot for November’s statewide election. Gillum would be running against the incumbent, Ron DeSantis, a Republican. The morning after Gillum’s win, DeSantis…
As the 2018 US midterm elections approached, more Native Americans than ever were running for office. Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, a Native American tribe, had won the Democratic primary in New Mexico and was running…
After 80 years of being passed around by smugglers, a precious limestone relief is heading home to modern-day Iran, formerly part of the Persian Empire. The carved piece of stone shows a Persian Imperial guard holding a spear. It was…
Archaeologists working in Como, Italy, a town north of Milan, made a surprising discovery in September 2018. They were doing excavations in the basement of a theater that had been condemned and was about to be torn down. Then they…
Two ancient Indian sculptures have spent years on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In 2018, the Met and the Indian government agreed that both will be returned to India. An eighth-century stone sculpture…